An essay to share with your Christian No-Coiner friends and family.
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My God is the one true God.

The rest are pretending.

My money is the one true money.

The rest are pretending.

Giving spammers reign to freely spam is the ideological equivalent to providing AI child porn to child molesters.

You’re not reducing harm. You’re enabling disgusting behavior adjacent to a virtuous environment.

What happens when you place depravity next to virtue? Does the depravity become more virtuous or does the virtuous become more depraved? This is not difficult to understand.

I find this argument very simple: Core believes they must make changes to continue improving Bitcoin because complacency and stagnancy are the biggest threats to Bitcoin.

Those who oppose these changes fundamentally believe that too much tinkering with the protocol is the biggest threat to Bitcoin.

The case has been made that giving data embedders the option to utilize OP_RETURN results in harm reduction because they’re not stuffing witnesses. The analogy is like a local government providing drug addicts clean needles to use as a means of less harm done to the addict.

Anyone who has ever been to a major, liberal city knows that policies like this result in the degradation of a city. It fuels addiction, drug dealing and other crimes that come along with incentivizing people to do things that result in the decay of society. I don’t want OP_RETURN full of CSAM in the same way I don’t want both Starbucks bathrooms occupied by heroin addicts for hours at a time. As someone who understands addiction all too well, incentivizing drug use never results in less harm.

A few years ago, I was comfortable with calling myself a Libertarian. But it’s been issues like these that have made me aware that placing a moral standard that protects communities above the individual’s rights is the superior framework. I now find parts of the Libertarian frame weak and spineless. It will protect the rights of those with subversive agendas before it protects the rights of those willing to defend against the subversion.

We should not protect the right of foreigners to come into our country and burn our flag. We should not protect the right of drug addicts to more easily degrade our communities. And we should not protect the right of bad actors to use the greatest technological achievement in human history to post JPEGs of cats, CSAM or any other non-monetary data.