RE: Context is Paramount: The Importance of Avoiding the Pitfalls of Generalization and Quick Judgement in the Road of "Freedom & Revolution" (Medicine, Surgeries, Nazis, Cryptocurrency and Operation Paperclip)
I totally agree with everything you say. I think that from the far right to the far left, encompassing all types of political thought, the worst case presented is that which, outside of any context, has its ideology as a dogma, and believes that all the peoples of the world, regardless of the historical context, should be treated the same, with pamphleteering measures, and an exactly the same process in all cases. A fatal error.
The spirit of peoples and nations is not always the same, what works in Europe, does not necessarily work in Asia or in America, in fact, what works in Europe today is not the same as what worked yesterday, or what will work tomorrow.
I have put the case of Venezuela many times; if tomorrow, the State completely removed all regulations, and left the Venezuelan people free at will, the result would be total error, chaos, and the government would collapse. Soon another government would emerge, and regulations would reappear. Because it is the people, rather than the government, that opposes to the free market.
A free market can only work if the people who belong to it want a free market, otherwise they will find a way to pervert it and a big State will be the final result.
Context always matters.
Another great example of this would be violence and crime rate in Switzerland (A country with mandatory conscription and 24.45 guns per 100 residents) Vs Japan (you can get life sentence for firing a gun and only 0.6 guns per 100 residents) being very similar.
Japan had 0.31 homicides per 100K and Switzerland had 0.69
BTW what happened to your SmartCash proposal? Any progress?
Well, the proposal has not received more comments, I'll wait a week and then send it to a vote.