Such attitudes and beliefs are increasingly common nowadays
This is the most concerning part of this drama. People (generally speaking) have always been lackadaisical when it comes to their privacy. The utterly stupid "I've got nothing to hide" argument is widely believed. People seem happy to hand over their KYC to total strangers, to let their ISP keep a complete record of everything they do online, to let Google track their physical movements in real time, to let Facebook read all their correspondence, and to let all these companies sell said data to any number of third parties or hand it over to the relevant governments. Hell, people even use devices which measure their heart rate and sleep schedules. These companies know more about you than you do. They justify all this by telling themselves "Well, I'm not doing anything wrong".
I don't need to spend a lot of time dismantling the "nothing to hide" argument,
because it is already widely discredited. I will share one of my favorite quotes on the topic though:
The old cliché is often mocked though basically true: theres no reason to worry about surveillance if you have nothing to hide. That mindset creates the incentive to be as compliant and inconspicuous as possible: those who think that way decide its in their best interests to provide authorities with as little reason as possible to care about them. Thats accomplished by never stepping out of line. Those willing to live their lives that way will be indifferent to the loss of privacy because they feel that they lose nothing from it. Above all else, thats what a Surveillance State does: it breeds fear of doing anything out of the ordinary by creating a class of meek citizens who know they are being constantly watched.
Now, if users like "No HATE" are so keen and happy to give up their privacy (although one must laugh at a person using an obvious alt-account to decry privacy), then that's their prerogative. I frequently advise against it and discuss how to avoid it, but ultimately, if you want to compromise your own privacy, then there's really nothing I (or anybody else) can do to stop you. However,
you don't get to compromise
my privacy. To call privacy enhancing tools (such as bitcoin mixers) evil because a minority may use them for nefarious purposes (just as a minority use Tor, the internet, cash, for nefarious purposes) makes you no better than the agencies and companies using the "nothing to hide" justification to spy on the public. If you live a life so meek and unexceptional that you are quite happy opening it up to scrutiny by anyone who is interested, so be it, but you have no right to force that nonsense on others.
It is doubly concerning to see these kinds of attitudes becoming more commonplace on a forum which is supposed to be united in our combined desire
not to trust third parties.