So by saying what I've said you think I'm demonstrating any of the following:

1:  any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2a :  a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
   b:  a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3:  a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

I'm not saying everything should be government controlled, nor am I saying that there will be no "private property".  And currently, it looks as though (by the 3rd definition) we're already in a socialist state by the fact that the harder you work, the less you get paid.  Look at welfare recipients who take advantage of the system.  More kids + No Work = More $$$...

So by saying what I've said you think I'm demonstrating any of the following:

1:  any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2a :  a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
   b:  a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3:  a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

I'm not saying everything should be government controlled, nor am I saying that there will be no "private property".  And currently, it looks as though (by the 3rd definition) we're already in a socialist state by the fact that the harder you work, the less you get paid.  Look at welfare recipients who take advantage of the system.  More kids + No Work = More $$$...

And all these labels...that kills me.  There is no "us" and "them", or "left", "right", or "center".  Libertarians aren't the only people who hold the bitcoin ideology up.  I'm certainly no libertarian, or democrat, or republican, or socialist.  I'm a guy who wants to better the future of our country, of bitcoin, and of the lives of each person in our country.  I won't treat "us" any different from "them". 

INTELLIGENCE is what keeps people from a relationship with a fairy tale. 

Tell me bitchick, are you too proud to believe in the hundreds of other gods that people believe in?

waaa businesses that get government subsidies won't be able to function

waaa wallstreet will stop buying government bonds

waaa this will drop the confidence in the US dollar

waaa what about muh gubmit job

Learning who the statist are in this community.. People who are in it for the money dont live in an apartment with roommates. I have been to jail I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy.

This is a bitcoin foundation member and thinks DPR should rot in prison. I guess we know what your motivation is and it aint freedom. I would venture to say you are the greedy one who is only thinking of themselves.

No friend of mine. 

One could make the argument that objectively the system that SR had in place likely prevented more murders than it caused. But yes he is, if proven in a fair trial (however likely that may be) beyond a shadow of a doubt, a murder and does not deserve freedom.

He never said that. He said some of the top thinkers are part of the philosophical discipline (ancapism/libertarianism). Stop twisting words.

I had the same initial reaction as almost everyone else here to the hitman claims - and personally now I've thought about it, I would never get a hitman for reasons explained later.

But instead of just condemning him for it, you should at least try to see where he was coming from. If many thousands of silk road users were revealed, I guarantee there would have been at least a few deaths and many lives ruined.

For a start, any users in Singapore or Malaysia or many other East Asian countries could have been looking at the death penalty.

Then there are those with addictions to benzodiazapenes and barbituates, and possibly some other drugs, where sudden forced cold turkey will kill them. You will be reading about some of them shortly.

Then there are the many addicts to other substances who are going to accidentally OD in the near future. To be fair this is going to be less likely than normal simply because silk road (by and large) was just so damn good - more likely is the addicts will not get enough and be, er, warm turkey (is that right?)

Then of course the many many many more addicts who will just have to go cold turkey. If you were buying drugs to sustain an addiction from silk road you were almost certainly a functioning addict, something that the anti drug groups try to pretend doesn't exist. To be a functioning addict you need a reliable supply. Lose that and many of these addicts are going to lose jobs and family. There will be suicides, not to mention suicides from withdrawal, including PWS.

All those are predictable consequences of stopping major drug suppliers, and are one reason the war on drugs is simply evil. But releasing the names of users would be far far worse - especially in places like america where they drug test employees. Anyone on that list would get that at a very minimum. More likely, just fired. And that's ignoring the police investigations, where tbh at least in America they will pay lip service to respecting your rights. Albania, not so much.

Combine all that and unless you always believe killing is wrong, no matter what, there is a perfectly reasonable argument for cold blooded murder.

Even so, I wouldn't order a hitman myself and for three major reasons - the users brought this on themselves by taking the risk of signing up for silk road. This, I think, would severely shift the balance of responsiblity away from me such that I wasn't forced to make a deal with the devil. Secondly, I would have no idea where to hire a hitman and am skeptical "real" ones even exist. Thirdly, the above analysis assumes the two options are murder or nothing. In reality there were plenty of other options that could be taken and he should have tried one of them.

P.S. @ the person who thinks it's appalling to think murder is an acceptable form of justice. Of course it's appalling. But you know who's supposed to enforce justice? The government. Do you think that I can take some guy to small claims court if he sells me oregano for $200/oz? It is precisely this, being forced to take justice into your own hands, which causes the worst practical side effects of the war on drugs.

That is not DPR's responsibility but that blackmailing scumbag's.

I follow US politics as much as I can, and the republican/tea party/libertarian crowd are just too hilarious, for me it's almost unbelievable how such stupid people got into a power position, but like John Kerry said, in America you have the right to be stupid.