Do you think that there are more bad guys, or good?

why on earth would you expect even this to cause me to alter my preference for non-aggression?

Well, if it's all in your head, where do you get off telling people that their reality is "fairy tales"?

OK, let's take that assumption. In an armed conflict, the good guys win half the time, the bad guys win the other half. Do you think that there are more bad guys, or good?

But there is no reality, it's all in your head, right?

How well when both sides have guns?

Proof of work produces money, it does not secure the network--so it is not just as bitcoin. I don't know what "ah ha" moment there is to be had here that isn't already explained in the OP.

i simply have preferences. one of those preferences is that i would prefer to live in a society where people do not initiate or threaten to innate the use of violence against each other. I would prefer to live in a society where people respect each other. I would prefer to live in a society where people are allowed to pursue their own goals so long as they are not harming each other. If you feel differently and would prefer to live in a society that does not conform to these ideals than i respect that. I do not claim that you are in some way wrong and that i am in some way right, we just have different preferences.

Here you go.

Evidently not, if you think that no restrictions on guns means that pulling a gun to enforce your opinion will work better, rather than worse.

Electricity, hardware, and opportunity costs.

It's the same as bitcoin, but because minting in decrits is a "burst" operation rather than a sustained one, finding ways to reduce the cost of electricity is going to cost you in hardware and opportunity--costs that are unlikely to ever be recovered because only a fraction of new money comes from minting, and even that fraction depends on a large initial wasted investment in the MBQ. Even if you can take electricity costs to essentially zero via ASICs or whatever, the development and production costs of those ASICs are distributed to people other than those who spent the time and money to develop them--both in the decrits distribution and the opportunity cost where you could have, say, bought a yacht instead of developing those ASICs.

Minters put in all the effort for only the smallest of rewards, so therefore the reward must be fairly significant for anyone but an attacker to bother. And if an attacker does bother, the algorithm could be changed, rendering the entire operation a complete failure. Reducing the profit motive of the minting system to being one only of opportunity rather than necessity for the network's protection ensures that those with the hardware cost already sunk in, such as everyday GPUs used for gaming, have a huge advantage in amortized costs over those who invest specifically to create money. Reducing the hardware tax. Much more of that $1 goes into the decrits economy than to the electric companies or the ATIs compared to bitcoin. That is why it is important to protect the everyday GPU, because any other option is a complete waste of resources.

A lower chance of getting shot just increases the chances you will be assaulted with another weapon. Such as a knife. Or a bat.

And you still haven't answered my question.

Haven't thought that one through, have you?

Having large groups to help impose order does not require a state.

if it was illegal to drink water i think you would find a reason to do something illegal.

my idea of freedom is being allowed to pursue my own goals with out interference so long as i am not causing harm to other people. I'm sorry that you dont like this idea. Im sorry that you would prefer that people who are behaving peacefully be interfered with. But i respect your right to have your own preferences.

Lets be clear here, there is no argument to be made for how you are free, you arnt. But there is definitely room for debate over whether freedom is actually a good thing. So stick to that.

so you can just turn your house into a business and start selling or manufacturing what ever you like (excluding crazy things) and the government wont try to stop you? Could you go down town and buy a building that used to be a business and set up your living quarters in there? No one ever says to you the functional equivalent of "give me the products of your labor or else ill lock you in a cage, if you refuse to go to the cage ill beat you up, if you refuse to allow me to beat you up ill shoot you?"

where is this awesome place where you have freedom, where the government doesn't lord over you and how to live and force you to give it your money?

That's fine.  No-one is saying you have to be free.  In a a free society you will have the option for others to look after you if that is what you so wish.  There will still be state-like entities I'm sure for those who want them due to market demand.

The thing is, just because you don't want freedom, that means you can say others shouldn't have it either?

you cant "take out" your competition in a free market. It will be instantly replaced by new competition. The only way you can "take out" the competition is if you can keep out new competition. There is no mechanism that i am aware of for doing this other than the state.
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oh! i know a method that can achieve this! its called "a gun to the head"-method, and it work incredible when there is no one that restricts the usage of guns.

It isn't unsolved. Money does not have to be created to protect the network. If there is no need for new money, it won't be produced. Say 1 DCR costs around $1.00 to create, for a profit margin Decrits must be worth around $1.10 or significantly more before minting will begin because of the burn and the need for a lot of people to see a profit margin. Otherwise you're just burning value and giving it to others in the form of free money. You could potentially cause inflation, but the new money is being distributed randomly across the globe, not under the control of governments/banks/wealthy. If decrits run up and down the system, you will quickly bankrupt yourself. If they don't, you are still adding more power to decrits by investing time and resources into otherwise useless ventures--you would have been all-around better off buying decrits instead. If you can't beat 'em...

“Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen