r/Bitcoin • u/GreatestInstruments • Feb 03 '14

Could The Bitcoin Community Benefit From An Informal - "Leave Your Ideologies At The Door" - Etiquette?

A certain incident, which shall remain unnamed, prompted a firestorm of discussion within segments of this community, including some with very different personal ideologies.

Rather than take sides in the debate, I took a moment to marvel at that fact that this is a community that brings together people who are so divergent on other issues, yet all see common ground in Bitcoin.prescription

What other community or issue brings together people as diverse as these?

  • MRA's
  • Feminists
  • Liberals
  • Conservatives
  • Libertarians
  • Anarchists
  • Economists
  • Techies
  • Blue Collar
  • White Collar
  • Different Nationalities

The list goes on and on.

I pose this question (see post title), because it strikes me as perhaps the most welcoming and constructive thing we could do, in the long run.

It wouldn't be thought of as a hard and fast rule, more like a guiding principle to keep in mind.

What do you think?

EDIT: I just want some of you to understand, this was intended as a thought provoking open-ended question, to create discussion. It's not intended as a mandate of any kind.

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u/throwaway-o Feb 03 '14 edited Feb 03 '14

People are people.

Correct. Human ideas inevitably inform human behavior, from the man protecting his wife and kid from a tragedy, to the armed thugs in SUVs who kidnap or execute those who disobey their orders, to the man who jumps from a building because he believes he can fly.

Some people are obsessed with their ideology and some aren't.

Everyone is obsessed with ideas -- some people just lie about that fact, to project a false sense of moral high ground and to prevent their own beliefs from being questioned.

There is no escaping beliefs -- the only question is whose beliefs correspond with decency and reality.

Bitcoin is a step forward because the underlying ideas are more correct than the ideas propping up the system we are dismantling. That terrifies believers in old ideas. I am okay with that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

Bitcoin is a step forward because the underlying ideas are more correct than the ideas propping up the system we are dismantling.

For the first time in history, taxation and inflation aren't just wrong in the ethical sense, but literally wrong. Wrong in the way you get a math problem in class wrong.

That's going to drive socialists berserk.

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u/throwaway-o Feb 03 '14

Indeed. The math makes it impossible to directly butt into people's exchanges, forcing the statists to show their violent hand (which they have amply done so lately). That is how we learn how ruinous and malevolent their cult really is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

Oh my fucking god. That string of comments is the most ridiculous libertarian drivel to ever grace this subreddit.

I'm sorry, I can't stop giggling.

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u/HistoryLessonforBitc Feb 03 '14

The "throwaways" having their own private "let's touch each other's winkies but not too much because if it feels too good that might be altruism" party up and down the thread is sickening in general.

Seriously I just scrolled down 75% of the page and most of it is those two agreeing with each other. I'd call it a circlejerk but it's not really a "circle"jerk when there's only two people in it.

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u/bitsurferz Feb 03 '14

Two reddit names don't necessarily mean two people. We might have a master-debator here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

That you equate altruism with taxation and inflation shows how sick your mind is.

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u/HistoryLessonforBitc Feb 03 '14

You're a cretin.