Yeah. It is true that everything has a duality. A hammer can make a beautiful coffee table or be used to smash someone’s head in.
So when you say a digital currency is no more evil than guns, you don’t take into account scale.
As a function of scale, when a small number of people use guns to kill, it is tyranny, misery, and death inflicted on a limited number. And yes. A lot of people with a lot of guns can sow tyranny, misery, and death on a far larger scale.
However, a small group set on implementing a global digital currency can affect millions or billions of people, sowing tyranny, misery, and death up and down the length and breadth of that population.
So it is an entirely different context of discussion.
In that light, I am guilty of not spelling out that distinction for the benefit of those who do need is specifically spelled out.
“I am guilty of not spelling out that distinction for the benefit of those who do need is specifically spelled out.”
Sounds a lot like a non-apology.
“So when you say a digital currency is no more evil than a gun...”
That’s called an analogy - it’s used to make a point.
And you yourself said in your last post that... “You do realize that electronic currency in and of itself is not intrinsically evil” I agree.
But you keep changing your mind.
Again it’s not the inanimate object that’s evil, but the person(s) that use it in an evil way. And evil people will always find something that they can use in a bad way.
I think we’ve beaten this dead horse to death.