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Re: Overwhelmed by emotions shown here
by
sporket
on 18/04/2014, 14:34:17 UTC
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.