What your parent is trying to say is that this is not yet a real problem. It is a "market" of one person.
Maybe Augur could potentially be used this way. It is not currently being used this way. This article is trying very hard to rile you up about these dangerous assassination markets but is pretty dishonest about the fact that it's talking about a possibility, not a reality.
It's also not like Augur has suddenly made assassination markets possible, they already exist and the world has failed to come to an end because of it.
Maybe Augur could potentially be used this way. It is not currently being used this way. This article is trying very hard to rile you up about these dangerous assassination markets but is pretty dishonest about the fact that it's talking about a possibility, not a reality.
It's also not like Augur has suddenly made assassination markets possible, they already exist and the world has failed to come to an end because of it.