Since the beginning of the pandemic, I've noticed lots of people, including Bitcoiners, be against vaccines, quarantine, Covid in general. I follow some people here and there, for bitcoin related stuff, and dergigi is one whom I enjoy reading. Even he has written an article regarding what we're all going through these years, referring to it as "Tyranny".
What I don't understand, and I'm all ears, is the arguments. Why is it tyranny? And even if it is, how's supposed a society cope with a virus? Even if we assume it comes from a lab, isn't deadly, enriches vaccine companies and the like. It concerns me, because rational people whom I've learnt a lot from don't go quite well with this.
Not self-moderated; I suppose we keep things civil.
That's natural, because that's a form of their concern about COVID-19 or vaccines.What I don't understand, and I'm all ears, is the arguments. Why is it tyranny? And even if it is, how's supposed a society cope with a virus? Even if we assume it comes from a lab, isn't deadly, enriches vaccine companies and the like. It concerns me, because rational people whom I've learnt a lot from don't go quite well with this.
Not self-moderated; I suppose we keep things civil.
because this vaccine strikes suddenly, in an instant the world is shaken,
So it's not surprising that people panic or worry about vaccines, because they are afraid that things they don't want will happen.
For the US...
But, is Bitcoin like this? Somebody invented a real Bitcoin physical coin. Government talked him into stopping production. So, he stopped, without fighting to court, even.
But he didn't have to stop. All he had to do, and all Bitcoin people have to do, is fork Bitcoin so that there is the proper Private Membership Association (PMA) statement right inside the fork client/core, and inside any bitcoin coins that are made from it.
What will this do? It will take it out of government regulation, because it is private. Every transaction is a private transaction. Government may try to regulate, but based on the Constitution, Amendments 1, 4 and 5 (and others), and 70+ Supreme Court cases, private is still private, even from government.
Consider the Contract Clause in the Constitution. I have bolded the parts that we are interested in::
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No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
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State, above, also means the United States....
If the fork is written up as a contract between the people who use the Bitcoin addresses, the whole thing is taken right out of the authority of government to regulate it.
