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614 sats \ 8 replies \ @kepford 12h \ on: DISCUSS: "If you ever made a sat from spam, you are a bad actor" bitcoin
Whatever...
Anyone that has mined has probably made a profit from "spam". This is dumb.
I hate spam but this purity test nonsense is juvenile. This moralizing of an amoral market based incentive based system is really lazy. One man's spam is another man's art. If I were king of the world a LOT of art including music would not exist. There is a certain arrogance at play here.
I really wonder if these people that get so religious about bitcoin just need to join a church. I have a theory about humans. I'm sure many have come to the same conclusion. You can take the best aspects of religion out of a culture but you can't take the worst aspects of religion out of humans. We just interject them into other things.
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Humans are made to worship. If they don't worship the true god they'll worship a false one.
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That is true but what I'm describing isn't worship. Its self-pride and comparing ourselves to each other. Self-righteousness basically. Many things like this though get pinned on religion but in an ever increasingly non-religious world we still see the same traits pop up. Religions are just an easy whipping boy to blame for a problem that is inherent in our species. That's my sense at least. I guess you could say that the issue is worship of the self. If that's what you mean.
Religion is an easy external scapegoat. The problem is really us.
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Well, Bitcoin is monetary, not religious.
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You can take the best aspects of religion out of a culture but you can't take the worst aspects of religion out of humans. We just interject them into other things.
This rings true for me. Maybe zealotry is latent in all of us -- just takes the right trigger to activate it.