I notice you didn't answer whether you thought the demands in the example were reasonable. You just changed the angle... In any case, it's not about "inconveniencing" anyone, it's a basic principle of how _all_ money works.
He just seems to wanna turn bitcoin into fiat controlled by a central authority... he may have a lot of posts under his belt, but he just doesn't grasp the concept of what bitcoin is fundamentally... if he really put as much money as he claimed, into something he had no understanding about in the first place, thinking he'd just put his monies into it and get back more monies, then this should be a valuable lesson for him to learn.
=squeak=