The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

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    A monopoly on violence is usually a good thing. The alternative is war, either on a local level (gang wars) or national (civil war). Wars are generally to be avoided.

    And policy change may be hard, but changing the attitudes of a mob is much harder. We passed laws against racism in the 1960s, we still haven’t eliminated racist mobs.

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      A monopoly on violence is usually a good thing. The alternative is war

      that’s a false dichotomy

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        Well, at least one alternative is war. Which I prefer to avoid, even if it requires a monopoly on violence.

        And I will always prefer one group threatening violence to rule-breakers to multiple groups threatening violence to rule-breakers. Especially since multiple sets of rules are more likely to be contradictory.