Overall my argument is not that what Cody is doing or anyone else should cease. I think freedom of thought and boundary pushing is often necessary to illicit change, but I question the "burn it all down" tactic. It reeks of desperation. I know that Cody is extremely intelligent. I find his writing well thought out and genuine, but it also panders to a lower level thinking that preys on outrage and disdain for government.

It's a fundamental difference of opinion and I like the debate. It's why I'm on this mailing list. I'd love to meet him in person and have a discussion. I'm sure it would be fascinating.

My biggest issue with this thread is that we are taking this guy (Ross) and we are projecting our interests and emotions onto him. He's only human. His DPR writings depict this sharp, well thought out individual with morals yet there is still this meek, mild mannered guy who pretends like life is a video game where you just take out whomever is screwing you over.

If he was so altruistic and his goals for enacting political and social change were genuine, why take a profit?



> On Feb 6, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Adam B. Levine <adam@???> wrote:
>
> The gun thing? As mentioned, you seem to take on the mission of proving that the state can't actually enforce their monopolies of control as being the entire job. That is great but again only demonstrates that the illusion is an illusion, it does not provide any alternatives or solutions. Things like OpenBazaar are actual solutions so that when the current paradigm falls apart there are better systems not just hypothetically theoretical but actually working in real life before we needed them.
>
> What good is it destroying the existing paradigm if you've got nothing better to replace it with? Decentralized tools that enable p2p interactions and commerce without a trusted third party seem to solve that.
>
> So aren't projects like what Brian and I are working neccesary alternatives for when people come around to your way of seeing things? I just don't get the whole point out the problem but shit on attempts at building something different and better thing.
>
> Do you really not see the difference between openbazaar and silk road? They are structured very differently.
>
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>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Brian Hoffman <brian@???> wrote:
>> How many have you guys sold? I feel like I haven't heard about it since it came out. Seems irrelevant.
>>
>>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> Can you hear me sighing?
>>>
>>> Take DD's little Ghost Gunner. At once a reversion, a baiting of the state regulatory imagination into overdrive, and the literalization of its own nightmare. We understand the spirit of terror.
>>>
>>> So, no. I'm casting all these pearls because so many of YOU have become them, and you don't have to mettle to stand in judgment of Ulbricht.
>>>
>>>> On Feb 6, 2015 5:33 PM, "Washington Sanchez" <washington.sanchez@???> wrote:
>>>> "Meet terror with terror..."
>>>>
>>>> What a skilful use of the leviathan's ideological hegemony to justify a corrupt conscience. You are not merely emulating their tactics, you have become them. How disappointing.
>>>>
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