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by chunky1994 1113 days ago
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- It should be illegal to defraud unsuspecting individuals by hiding information that would necessarily clarify the riskyness of the contracts they are engaging in.

- Businesses have way more information asymmetry advantage and we want to help limit this.

- Financial responsibilities of business and individuals is something that should be looked at by a third party because this can be financing bad things and/or be unfair to the individual due to the aforementioned information asymmetry.

- Various other reasonable points, while not perfect can certainly provide conscientious arguments for the them.

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It should be legal for anyone to do what they want with their own money. If they want to throw it off a cliff that’s fine too. What someone else chooses to risk is none of your business.
So the following should be always legal:

- Use money to buy guns. - Use money to buy drugs. - Use money to buy assassinations. - Use money to buy bombs.

Yes to the first two. Assassinations and bombings don’t fall under “consenting individuals”.

But if you are logically consistent, then if you support encrypted messaging you believe it should be legal to plan assassinations.