Quote from: EhVedadoOAnonimato on August 10, 2011, 01:08:18 PM

And that *has* happened under severe regulation as well, like that German organic farm which killed tenths of people a couple months ago.

It never stops amazing me how people are so indoctrinated as to believe the government regulations work and do away with all harm when the proof that they dont work is in front of them. But they learnt when they were kids that without regulations we will be all dying in a waste of chaos, and so we need them. The motto of the government should be: Get them young and profit the rest of your life.

The worse thing is that they really believe that by being violent against this woman for example, they are making a better world.

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Of course you have to have a dairy license. That's the government's way of being able to stop you if you decide to be a felon and/or cause problems for the community. You have to have a license to prove you are legitimate and it is one notch of insurance that you're willing to be held accountable for your actions in the business. (The license fees stem from costs to keep records and pay salaries, nobody is going to do the job for free)

You saw what happened with Mybitcoin right? The community had trust and trust alone to use his services and they got smacked in their face. Now, had he had a business license, we'd know exactly where to find him and have a lot more leverage over him as a community.

This is the perfect example of the level at which we have arived. People actually trusted a nobody with huge quantities of money! We are so used to live in this world where theft is either regulated and indoctrinated as normal and any competition in the scam sector is prosecuted, that a lot of us dont know how to take the minimum precautions.

In this sense I think Bitcoin is great because it will teach us a couple of lessons that we desperately need.