Quote from: futureofbitcoin on May 26, 2015, 01:37:47 AM

Quote from: tarsua on May 26, 2015, 01:30:26 AM

He did nothing wrong, he made a website and allowed people to buy and sell items, it just turned out that most of these things were illegal, do you think that if he took silk road down that would put a dent in drug trafficking? there are tens of sites out there like silk road, if the real law breakers weren't on silkroad, they would be somewhere else, doing the same thing

Sigh. I already pointed out your logical fallacy in my other post. Do you think that if you put a single murder in jail, that would put a dent in homicides around the world? There are tens of murders in the world. If you caught one, the rest would be somewhere else, murdering people.

So let's not catch any of them. Right? Huh

Man, think before you form an opinion.

Ok so bitcoin was used in all the transactions, should they track and throw Mr. Satoshi in Jail? Some motels across the United States are used as hubs for underaged prostitution, should these motel owners go to jail?
The real problem here is that they should go for the actual people that caused 6 confirmed overdose deaths, not Mr. Ulbricht

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I think they will throw the book at him and give the maximum penalty. To make an example for others who might start a similar site. Of course it won't make a difference, but that is what I think they will do.

There are many more sites like silk road on the internet, for every 1 the authorities take down, 2 pop up