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Since you categorically state that "the whole thing needs to be pulled apart" and attribute all sorts of evils to what is essentially just an open cryptographic protocol that anyone can freely use or not use as they please, I'd say it's you who is more closely edging towards being unable to rationally discuss bitcoin. Many things can be arbitrarily defined as bad ideas without having to be banned and something doesn't need to "better human society" (according to your definition of how that's decided no less) in order to have legitimate reasons for existing.



Agreed. Let's get rid of ice cream next. I find I don't like the flavor, it uses a lot of CO2 to create, and it has some negative side effects. I also hate how people are big ice cream boosters, how annoying. Also people are making money from selling ice cream. I'm not making money that way, and don't think other people should, either.




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