The human experience is built on cruelty.

Well, almost. The human experience of the imperial core is built on cruelty. I’m pretty sure the Native Americans weren’t slaughtering animals on an industrial scale.

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Look at that brave manly man arresting such a danger to the god-fearing, Jesus-loving, for-profit US society.

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Yet you claim that only A should be allowed. What a farce.

No. It’s you who claims that. Hence the fallacy.
My position is that both are extremely flawed and unethical, but addressing fiat money is not relevant nor needed to make a point about the flaws of crypto"currencies".

“Crypto is far less wasteful than the fiat banking fraud scheme.”

Whataboutism fallacy. It’s not because serial killer A murdered less than serial killer B, that A should be forgiven.

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If you lived in Africa you would say that Bitcoin is godsend, as you can hear it from many africans

“[…] As already mentioned, imposing technology doesn’t work; struggling people know their needs far better than anyone. On the contrary, it seems that the “developing” countries should be telling us what do:

• “The East African region has cemented its position in the digital economy as the global leader with the highest penetration rate of mobile money in the world.” —Daily Monitor (2021)[49]
• “Finally, a number of telcos have managed to develop a superior client experience early in the evolution of mobile financial services in Africa. M-Pesa’s client experience is remarkably simple: it takes only three inputs and six clicks to send funds, on any type of handset. Registration is straightforward; merchant acceptance is widespread, and there are no transaction fees on bill payments.” —McKinsey (2017)[50]

All without blockchain. Who would’ve thunk? For first world countries we sure think third-rate. […]” —Crypto Cult Science

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Simply copy-pasting from my own website because of POSSE: “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.”

Faulty generalization That some scammers or greedy people in rich countries are promoting it like a ponzi scheme to benefit themselves doesn’t mean every person use it in the same way. Some people use it for its savings in a highly devaluating currency (my use case), others for money laundering, or to send money to Palestine, or to flee a collapsing country because of war and avoiding their money being seized by the policy at the borders, for ransomware, or creating circular economies in poor countries, to donate to human rights activists in dictatorships, to buy drugs, etc, etc these are just some of the dozens of verified uses cases. That’s what happens when a technology is free and permissionless, it’s not good or bad by itself, it’s as good or as bad as the person that uses it. AI is being used to scam people and to detect cancer more precisely than the best experts. That’s and inherent feature of free software. Lemmy is a perfect example, would you promote not using it because there is an instance used for child porn?

It would’ve been a faulty generalization if, like knives or Lemmy, most use cases were benign. Unfortunately crypto"currencies" are predominantly speculative and malignant to society.

If the Lemmy admins adhered to everyone’s request to “stop doing X and I’ll donate”, they would end up with zero more donations because people will always give another reason for not donating

I know. But I am not everyone, and this request is not unique. Wikimedia stopped accepting crypto"currencies" as well by community vote.

FIAT stanning never went this hard.

False dilemma. Being against wasteful greed-incentivizing MLM pyramid schemes doesn’t mean not objecting to the flaws of contemporary finance as well.

Please stop accepting crypto"currencies"—multi-level marketing pyramid schemes—and I donate.

What if I paid for all my free software?
I’ve always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let’s change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway? —https://www.arscyni.cc/file/take_my_money.html

Thanks for saving me the time of arguing a LLM.

Before investing some time in a reply, have you read the essay that’s linked?

Being rich.

As long as there are people without a home or who live in a permanent state of anxiety, then being rich is unethical. Solving the problem of disproportionate hoarding—greed—should be humanity’s current prime directive because it’s the cause of nearly all our problems.

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Religion.

To consider antireligion instead of atheism
The harm of religion is historically evident whereas the presence or absence of gods is not. Ultimately, the continued existence of religion is predicated on the indoctrination of children and suppression of rational thought. Therefore I am against religion but not necessarily against the idea of gods. For all we know gods are computer scientists and we are in their video game. —https://www.arscyni.cc/file/antireligion.html