"We can't stop something, therefore we should allow or enable it" is known as an appeal to futility, and it's often a subset of the either/or fallacy, also called binary thinking.
It's a powerful framing shift: if you can't stop something 100%, then why bother trying at all?
But the real world is messier than that. People have choices, but 80% follow defaults. Harmful behavior is possible, but not inevitable. And well-intentioned changes to working systems can have unexpected consequences.
I'm a big fan of Bitcoin Core — it has brought us a long way. But no single developer always gets it right. Listening to the broader community often makes the system stronger.
melvincarvalho / Melvin Carvalho
npub1me…t5c24
2025-05-02 07:43:01
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2025-05-02 07:43:01Event JSON
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