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11 sats \ 8 replies \ @stack_harder 31 Dec 2024 \ on: Strike Adopts Transfer of Funds Regulation bitcoin
i dont blame strike, they're a regulated company and all that , but man I'm so glad i started non-kyc buys already
Imagine someone saying "I don't blame the nazi train guy, the regulations were very clear about what he had to do"
"The government told me to" is no excuse for violating your users' trust. A man of principle should shut down his company if his only other option is compliance with evil laws.
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strike users by default are all kyc anyway, if you use strike, same as if you use Kraken, you have to understand that you are using a business that must suck whatever dick the government says.
now, if robosats started pulling that shit, that would be a rug
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you have to understand that you are using a business that must suck whatever dick the government says
That is not true. Strike and Kraken can shut down their companies. Therefore they are under no obligation to comply with these evil laws.
If the nazi train guy said "you have to understand, I *had* to send them to Auschwitz, my only other option was to quit" -- I would say, "then you should have quit."
Compliance with evil laws is never acceptable, not even when the government says you'll lose your paycheck.
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You have lost all credibility by comparing Strike to Nazi Germany
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I think that is silly. Comparing x to y does not imply x is as bad as y.
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your Nazi analogy is lazy and extreme
update:
It means your clip is empty
It means your clip is empty
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your Nazi analogy is lazy
That is a dumb criticism in my opinion.
A lazy analogy, I assume, is one that sprang to mind immediately, rather than taking a while to think of. Well, to be frank, I don't think that's a bad thing. After finding the analogy made the point I wanted (which is that no one should follow evil orders), it would be silly and pointless to say "oh, no, that was too fast. Let me spend extra time for no reason -- other than not being called lazy -- to come up with a different analogy that makes the same point." An analogy is critque-able based on its applicability, not based on how easy it was to think of.
and extreme
I'm glad this criticism has to do with my analogy's applicability. And I freely admit that nazis did something far worse than what KYC'd exchanges do. But I don't think that affects the analogy's applicability, because the analogy isn't about *how bad* the violation is; it's about *the rationalization* of the violation. It's about someone saying "Don't blame me! I was just following orders!" And that rationale excuses anything, including far worse things like nazism. It's a bad rationale so I criticized it by "reducing it to the absurd." There is nothing wrong with going to the extreme to win an argument if that's where your opponent's argument leads. And the "just following orders" rationale leads precisely there.
It means your clip is empty
No it doesn't. Analogies don't come with an expiration date. You may be tired of hearing people bring up nazis in argument; but just because it's been done does not mean it's bad to do. An argument does not become fallacious through frequent use so I recommend not dismissing an analogy just because you've heard it many times.
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It's terrible because in your zeal to compare Strike to a Nazi soldier you forgot the more recent and obvious example, i.e. a better analogy: law enforcement and covid mandates
Some law enforcement officials chose not to enforce immoral covid mandates
Others lacked moral fortitude
Comparing anyone or anything to Nazi is borderline disinformation
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