No. It just mean we gotta figure out how to conduct justice 'fairly' in a world of high deflation.

Too many "uh".

Yeah, bondmen must be rated first.

You going to have to work for free. No offering goods and services for btc.

So a new bitcoiner on the scene goes to a bondman so he can purchase an arudino from a nervous merchant for 14 BTC. The bondman said "gimme 1/3 of 14 BTC. If you are not successful, I keep all your deposit. If successful, I will give you back 98% of my deposit."

Said new bitcoiner conduct a trade with the merchant. The transaction is successful.

Both party could also deposit with the bondmen giving him more room to move and recoup his risk. If the transaction turn out to be a fraud, the bondman will refund the damaged party.

That how it works?

Bondmen could lose a lot of money if the last ten customer he have were a bunch of scammers.

This is from the article on https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/books/Toward_A_Private_Digital_Economy/index.html ?

Bitcoin might make taxation impossible.

So the whole morality of taxation might as well become irrelevant because it force this person who wrote the FAQ into our inconvenient libertarian world.

It's still important to answer his objection though.

3000 topics! What a neat number.

As far as I understand, he think "murder is wrong" is more of a moral rule of thumb. This applies to taxation too.

Sometime it is necessary to shoot would-be aggressors in the head. That is in some sense, a murder. He argue that some problem could only be solved with coercing people to give up a small amount of property.

Sounds fishy.

Let see if you does.

You got distorted images.

I am in agreement with your sentiment, but it is easy to dismiss his arguments and not worry about it. Learning about why our position is flawed will help us figure out a libertarian philosophy that is more coherent and epistemological correct.

That's to say, I am more interested in being "right" rather than feeling nice and warm, but wrong.

Wee! We have an actual conspiracy!

I am glad some of us are more attached to our rationality than to our admittedly very well loved ideology called Libertarianism.

http://www.raikoth.net/libertarian.html

Something worth talking about.

I like the critique of "taxation is theft". That's ACTUALLY COHERENT. They didn't fall into the public good trap and that kind of nonsense.

(I am not sure about utilitarianism as an ethical philosophy myself...)

All the pledged amount.

Yep, 8449.00 BTC is still there.

Let me check if the money is still there. After all I been entrusted with the funds.