That it's a developmental stage, and if children were indoctrinated with it, presumably some would not exhibit that stage. Yet, all do.

Apparently you don't have these people in your country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janitor

The idea is that you pay him enough to go around and clean all the toilets (and floors, walls, etc) daily, so that they do not get too dirty.

And you see, it is a pretty big deal, because these are exactly the sorts of problems that destroy socialist societies. It's almost never the big things. It's the tiny little details that do it.

Correct, but dishonest mining hardware can't be destroyed; Decrits shares can. The people that monitor Decrits are being paid to do so, whereas only miners in bitcoin get paid, decentralization++. They also have a say in which network is correct by dropping suspicious TB activity. Non-miners in bitcoin have no say. And all this is achieved without using proof-of-work.

If 99% of the SHs are completely corrupt and 100% of the CN is completely honest: Decrits user unaffected. It's a slam dunk in BFT.

So, who taught your younger sibling "Mine" when they were two? Was it you? Your mother?

What if nobody ever wants to clean it, because now it's too dirty?

I agree. However, if the network can perform as I will describe, the best EvilCorp. can do is temporarily fork the network. This is the "end game" scenario if EvilCorp has sufficiently infiltrated the CN and the SHs. What they will accomplish is being able to confuse *some* people temporarily, at the cost of their shares being destroyed on the honest network. Unlike bitcoin, an attempted takeover will be quickly and ultimately obvious to everyone who has paid attention to the network for any length of time (SH activity is kept in separate ledger so that even light clients can verify the network has not had any problems very easily and for a small amount of bandwidth).

To convince the people that EvilCorp.'s network is the honest one, they would have to control every corner of communication within and outside the network. It simply is not feasible for anyone to accomplish this in a sufficiently large network (or even a pretty small one). Honest merchants are intended to be the primary SHs because they will be able to recoup their transaction fees for essentially no effort while securing transactions at the same time by only keeping track of network data they already needed to keep track of for timely confirmations (efficiency++, decentralization++). If you are one of the confused and Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy all say "hey d00ds, this one's the honest network", do you believe them, or do you go with the side that isn't identifying itself?

And what can this attack accomplish? Potentially getting away with a few double/bad spends on an unsuspecting victim who manages to agree to part with product even though half the network is missing? They will destroy the shares of the honest side of the network and could then potentially change the code, but no one is going to buy it.

It is an idea I came up with very early on in the Encoin proposals: allowing EvilCorp. to make its own fork and let the users decide which fork loses every single decrit they invested in causing these shenanigans. It is a PERMANENT solution to eliminating a threat at the cost of temporary confusion that will be caused anyway. Honest bitcoin miners cannot destroy EvilCorp.'s mining hardware, so they are free to continue to mess with the network on a whim. Point: Massively in favor of Decrits.

You've clearly never had a child. Or a younger sibling for that matter.

OK, so everyone cleans the toilet they just used.

What if someone doesn't?

Well, first, "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." - Frank Zappa

But let's assume you manage to get a group of people together that all rejected personal property.

Who's going to clean the toilets?

Awesome. Please implement this as soon as possible, I look forward to laughing as your society collapses.

But these things cost, don't they? Or are bikes free in the fairyland kingdom of Denmark?

Then he'll walk away with your bike.

I think it's really sad the way that people get brainwashed in socialist countries.  I hope you break free before it becomes too ingrained because your big warm, fuzzy, bountiful government won't stay warm and fuzzy and bountiful forever.    This always happens.  The herd become helpless and dependent on the government.   My advice would be not to get into society group-think.  Think for yourself.

while(happiness_level() >= 70) {
    chill();
    do_as_im_used_to();
    relax();
    party();
}

Indeed, your body is an amount of matter which has a definite physical location, and belongs to someone. In other words, property. If that matter is unowned, it can be claimed and used by anyone.

Which means you concede that, on paper, you have not been able to defeat the system.

Unowned property can be used by whoever comes along. If you are unowned, then you should acquiesce to any demands anyone who comes along makes.

Would you like to change your mind on who owns you now?

Your continued unsubstantiated accusations are getting old. I have responded politely and in detail each time so far then you jump to another topic, wait for my explanation, then call into question my intellgence without conceding or continuing to argue the previous point. Twice now even responding with an attack vector to a post that already provides the answer to that vector, and using my "lack of knowledge" as proof.

"This is thwarted by the larger and more diverse CN, [...] The only way to get around this is to also control the vast majority of the CN, and really, a large portion of the CNCs/SPs as well. At this point you are just playing with yourself. Don't forget that this will also require a not insignificant percentage of all the coins in existence."

He is very ugly.

And that my friend says it all.  That's why you think what you think.  If you owned more stuff, you would not think it belongs to other people.

Then if someone demands that you give them oral sex, you will?

Actually, yeah, that's exactly what it means.

They abandoned their property, and we've been maintaining it since. It's ours, and they can't take it.

A cow is an animal. It does not have rights, for it is unable to assert them, or even understand the concept.

Black what now? Black people. They're people, aren't they? They have rights.