How anything can be a mystery to someone of such overwhelming intelligence is the real puzzle here. Sidestepped again, oh woe is me. It's not my job to explain your own view to you. Only you can bring yourself to your senses, you've proved countless times that you won't hear reason from anyone else.
The thrust of the Rome Burning metaphor is not the fact that Rome burns, but that you are Neromeddling fiddling whilst it happens. You missed that point though, so eager to to try and deny that there is any risk https://medium.com/@octskyward/crash-landing-f5cc19908e32
...and gavin said what now?
The thrust of the Rome Burning metaphor is not the fact that Rome burns, but that you are Nero
...and gavin said what now?
There is a very good blog post by David Hudson at hashingit.com analyzing what will happen on the network as we approach 100% full blocks. Please visit that link for full details, but basically he points out there is a mismatch between when transactions are created and when blocks are found and that mismatch means very bad things start to happen on the network as the one megabyte limit is reached.
The only mystery here is how you could possibly extrapolate "moral bankruptcy" and well being coming "at the expense of others" from Davout's explicit "everyone gets to benefit" specification. I suspect you are assigning moral solvency exclusively to equality of outcome, like a typical Free Shit Army Marxist.
And for the coup de grace, here is what Gavin said last month about your Sky Falling/Rome Burning/Red Zone/QUICK LET'S ALL PANIC-based attempts to ram through ill-considered hard forks using fear and mass hysteria:
Keep in mind this is the same Gavin who declared "increasing the max block size is urgent" back in early May. Gavin must be using some exotic radial definition of "urgent" with which I am not familiar, because despite his FUD nothing bad happened, and as a result of 'meddling by doing nothing' we now enjoy the benefits of better node/pool/mine configurations, smarter wallet software, RBF, fee market incubation, and pressure on SC/LN development.
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Gavin in May 2015: "increasing the max block size is urgent"
Gavin in July 2015: "The sky will not fall if the block size stays at 1MB"
Gavin in July 2015: "The sky will not fall if the block size stays at 1MB"
#REKT
Urgency begins before the sky is falling. Only limited brains would wait until the sky is falling.