We all have incentives to rob, murder and rape people all the time. We generally don't do it though, and to assume that people are doing that is not a good thing.
you're one of those people who think crime is as depicted on TV; crime occurs, victim is able to phone the police, and the police turns up just in time to catch the blundering criminal? Grown ups are talking
I have difficulty making out what point you are trying to make, other than that you are trying to insult me in some very strange way.
You are saying that because police can't prevent crimes we should just assume everyone is a criminal and act accordingly? If so that is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard.
No, but its unreasonable to assume that because they have an incentive they must be doing it. You seem to have seen a possibility and jumped from it being possible (but quite unlikely) to saying it must be true.
We all have incentives to rob, murder and rape people all the time. We generally don't do it though, and to assume that people are doing that is not a good thing.
State involvement creates a strong enough incentive to override all others against (mining revenue, ethics, etc)
This is a reasonable assumption when planning a POW change, since the only reason to do so would be in response to a 51% attack. Why bother otherwise?
I do not agree that we would all be raping and murdering all the time if it wasn't for the all powerful government putting us in our place.
It is reasonable to plan a PoW change in response to a 51% attack. It is unreasonable to suggest that Bitmain are mentally deranged and intent on destroying Bitcoin for no reason and that we should pre-emptively attack to punish them for something you have no evidence for.