Overly libertarian crypto-bro vs AML regulations: EU edition
So annoying. There are good conversations to have about overreach and surveillance but dude, organised crime is fucking terrifying and AML is good actually.
I like buying drugs, I think there are probably kinds of crimes that shouldn’t be prosecutable by evidence discovered using methods intended to stop truly evil shit and we should probably talk about that. These people though, it’s always something stupid they coyly hide while acting like it’s some giant assault on their rights to be interviewed in order to establish they’re not trafficking arms or something.
It doesn’t make for a good case. I don’t think trading in crypto is inherently less moral than like buying shares in shell and some of the freak outs about it are knee jerk moral panics (seriously though please stop speculating using my ketamine coins? I just want to treat my depression) but it’s dumb to get so worked up about being asked a few questions when it looks absolutely sus as hell. If I walk down the street carrying a gun bag (full of flowers, the shape is convenient) in a balaclava (the wind dehydrates my skin) it’s not a fucking assault on my rights if someone asks me to show them there isn’t a rifle in my bag.
actively investing in shell and actively investing in crypto is unethical and it’s not wrong to point it out, and neither is this moral panic; if you don’t want to be subjected to ethical assessment, don’t brag about potentially unethical behaviour.
actively investing in crypto is unethical
no, it’s not.
note, i’m talking cryptocurrencies, not cryptography.
ah. do make a case for ethical cryptocurreny investment then, would you kindly?
most actions are amoral. some are immoral, few are moral duties. i don’t see any reason it shouldn’t be amoral.
“make a case for ethical cryptocurrency investment then, would you kindly?”
the burden of proof is on you to make the case that it isn’t, like almost all actions, amoral.
you seem to be mistaking this sub for a debate club; have a very adequate life.
not at all. i’m up over 55,000%
not at all. but then i’m aggressively middle-aged, and have a mortgage.