I would prefer not to continue our previous discussion until you have answered the question I posed to you directly, anisoptera.
You mean this?
If you had to choose one service to survive, dooming the other one to failure, would it be Bitcoin, or Silkroad?
It's a bullshit question and you know it.
Silk Road cannot survive without Bitcoin (or some other pseudonymous decentralized currency).
Bitcoin will survive whether or not Silk Road fails.
Bitcoin will
not survive if there is a central authority that can stop Silk Road from processing payments.