[throwaway613834]

> Yes, thanks SEC for preventing free people from entering into voluntary transactions.

Allowing free people to enter into whatever voluntary transactions they would like is basically the definition of anarchism. It's surprising to see people advocating for anarchism on HN this often, especially in obscured fashions like this rather than explicitly. Anarchy was never the vision for our society and is not generally seen as a desirable end goal.

[Edited for clarity.]

[mindcrime]

Anarchy was never the vision for our society and is not generally seen as a desirable end goal.

According to who? There are two or three of us who absolutely see anarchy as a desirable end goal. In the case of a lot of hackers, it's more specifically "anarcho-capitalism" or "voluntaryism" as opposed to what a lot of people call anarchy (what I'd probably call left-anarchism or socialist anarchism). But anarchy of a sort nonetheless.

[throwaway613834]

>> is not generally seen as a desirable end goal.

> According to who? There are two or three of us who absolutely see anarchy as a desirable end goal

2-3 people? What claim are you even contesting? I said it's not generally seen as desirable, not that there exists nobody on this planet who sees it as desirable. Are you somehow under the the US population is generally anarchist?

[mindcrime]

Sorry, I though the intentional hyperbole there was completely obvious, but it looks like you read that dead-pan / literal. Never mind, I don't have time to invest in this right now.

[DennisP]

I think anarchism is more a lack of any government that prevents involuntary transactions, such as theft. If you have a government that only prevents involuntary transactions, while allowing all voluntary ones, what you actually have is minarchist libertarianism.

(But a minarchist also includes fraud in prohibited transactions, which does take out some of these ICOs.)

[baby]

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