Directionally, Bitcoin can prevent senseless state on state violence. First however, people would have to use and understand it, which is currently where we still are.
Bitcoin can never prevent the need for violence as a backstop against immoral or unjust action. And it can never prevent violent individuals from committing crimes. But the violence we are concerned with today is neither of those things - it’s state sponsored war played out as a political and economic chess game between fiat elites with millions of innocents being used as pawns. We are capable of restructuring that system to prevent that, and we will need to if we are going to survive. If you don’t think that’s possible, then kindly go fuck yourself, because hope is one of our most essential tools in order to build a better world.
If you think it is possible, but don’t see Bitcoin as the tool to enable it, then I’m all ears. My goals do not start and stop with Bitcoin - peace and prosperity for myself, my family, and my community are always my main priorities. Bitcoin is by far the best shot I can see for individuals to dismantle these horrible, violent and destructive state systems. But I might be wrong, and I’m willing to understand why. The only thing I’m not willing to do is to accept doom and permanent group warfare. The history of human progress is a story of group cooperation making life better for everyone.
zforce / Zach⚡️
npub1hy…3ntt0
2023-10-22 17:11:06
in reply to nevent1q…078s
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2023-10-22 17:11:06Event JSON
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