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by BraveNewCurency 3060 days ago
> If something happens that's egregiously morally out of bounds, then people will find or create ways to enforce against it.

I think you left out "and a lot of money is involved". Do you think there would have been an emergency hard fork if the DAO only had $100 in it? I sincerely doubt it.

> existing enforcement mechanisms will impose themselves as trying to define what moral is.

Morality and Law (code or not) are different things. You can't code morality - you can only encode the programmer's morality. (Which is not the same thing, because the programmer can change his/her mind.)