Quote from: the_thing on September 10, 2012, 04:43:13 PM

Quote from: muyuu on September 10, 2012, 10:38:02 AM

This is the way to go on an individual basis. However, it's best not to be "contaminated" to the point you think scamming is okay or taking gullible people for a ride is justifiable or even deserved. That's when you get a perma-3rd world society.

I advocate the Japanese school of law enforcement. Expect the worst, do your best and be heavy handed with the rotten apples. It just f****** works.

This community is a scammer/sociopath magnet, and culture must be shaped accordingly to ameliorate this very obvious reality. It won't happen spontaneously, we must react strongly to scams and frauds.

I don't think scamming is ok. However, scamming is not a matter of my opinion nor a matter of morality. People just get scammed. Scammers don't contemplate whether their victims deserve to lose their money or not. It is inevitable that gullible people get scammed.

Now, Bitcoin is in its infancy. It is very vulnerable in various ways. Personally, I don't care about victims of scams. But the market gets fucked in the ass everytime you fall for someone like Pirate. If we want Bitcoin to survive, the members of its core community MUST change their approach. Otherwise this wonderful project is doomed.

I agree completely, but some people seem to make this "zap" connection in their minds to equate the fact that it will happen, with the conclusion that it doesn't matter and that one shouldn't even try to do anything about it. Others take an extra step and join the criminal ranks.

However gullible these people were, it's still for the best that scammers are hunted down if at all possible.