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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Do we really need Bitcoin?
by
jonald_fyookball
on 19/07/2014, 01:47:42 UTC

M) Bitcoin protects you from inflation, currency manipulation, global economic disaster, etc.
A) I agree, too. But this is exactly the 'non sequitur' fallacy. I agree that the governments (or the classes that control them) have way too much control over the currency. But this problem comes from really long ago.  

Non sequitur comes from Latin, meaning "does not follow".

An assertion that Bitcoin protects from inflation follows
clearly from the fact that the Bitcoin supply is limited.

An assertion that Bitcoin protects from currency manipulation
follows clearly from the fact that there is a protocol in
place that every needs to follow.

YOU are the one committing a non-sequitor when you say
the problem of government manipulation comes from
long ago.  THAT does not follow or have anything
to do directly with the initial statement.