I’m against going cashless for anonymity. Hypothetically let’s say I buy some weed and it’s not yet legal. I don’t want to incriminate myself or provide data for parallel construction
It is if you are arguing that current laws are unjust. Marajuana would have not been legalized were it’s sale not been able to be eliminated. The war on drugs would have continued.
"It is if you are arguing that current laws are unjust. "
Heyzeus, I'm wary that people could reasonably be making this kind of argument.
In an authoritarian nightmare, sure.
But in most places, that's the deal with the law, it's not a perfect fit.
If you allow people to define it as they think it should be, it's not going to work.
There's is a 100% chance that someone in your neighbourhood thinks he should be able to keep machine guns and more advanced weapons for whatever reasons. And probably some who think that if you are on their property for whatever reason, they can use 'lethal force'.
Etc..
That's why we don't get to say "I want to use crypto for the criminal things that I don't think should be criminal!"
Obviously proportionality applies, but still.
I'm wary of government oversight, but it's best if we as citizens try to be a bit responsible with the systems we have at our disposal.
That said, I'm not sure someone having a bit of weed should freak anyone out (i.e. proportionality).
> There's is a 100% chance that someone in your neighbourhood thinks he should be able to keep machine guns and more advanced weapons for whatever reasons. And probably some who think that if you are on their property for whatever reason, they can use 'lethal force'.
Both are common beliefs where I am and I happen to agree with them.
I don’t think this is a fair example, it negatively characterizes legal hypotheticals.
Buying a firearm or alcohol isn't illegal but you may well not want your credit card processor and all the third parties they share your data with to know about those purchases.
There are businesses that are fully legal in a jurisdiction but the entire banking and credit card infrastructure refuses to touch them. If cash is eliminated then how do such businesses exist?
The answer to this is to band together and fix the governments. I understand that this is not libertarian orthodoxy, but libertarian orthodoxy got us into this mess.
Hardly, people not listening to the warning of libertarians got us into this mess.
Libertarians have been very accurate to the consequences of government largess, and at every turn people ignore the results of government programs doubling down claiming that not enough money was spent, or not enough power was ceased, or a loop hole was really the problem
No libertarianism did not cause this mess, far far far from it
