Quote from: teukon on April 18, 2014, 01:24:29 PM

Quote from: moravian on April 18, 2014, 12:46:14 PM

I don't understand this feeling of being entitled to increase your wealth by, say, 100 or 1000 times in few years, by doing nothing and just holding bitcoin.

Question: Do you think it's ethical to buy a lottery ticket and hope that it pays off? If it does, is it ethical to collect your winnings?

I know this is not exactly the same thing as Bitcoin, but I'd like to probe a little into the idea that it's wrong to increase ones wealth without being "productive".

Another: Is it ethical to accept a large inheritance? What about a small gift?

Lottery ticket: If your ethics are Judeo-Christian, then it's ethically wrong. On top of being monumentally stupid. Collecting the winnings (profits of gambling) would also be wrong.

Large inheritance: If by "accepting" you mean taking it and giving it away, then you're awesome from a Christian perspective ("If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." -KJV)

Ethics are meh.