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RE: Steem Wars: The Free Market Functions Beautifully. (Don’t beg for restrictive regulation!)
I like the logic you are using arguing the free market. But even in a free market there has to be some kind of regulation. Instead of government regulation we the people will chose to regulate what we buy and consume...but from what I’ve read there never has been a free market, big government, big money moves in and tries to control the ecoomy to protect their investments and investors.
Yes, precisely, that is non-violent, non-coercive, free market action.
I just watched your video -and you did speak well and much of what you pointed out is true and right. However, as long as ANYONE is empowered, through flagging, to coerce others, then flagging can only be considered a form of violence.
Yes, we must not ask for rules that take away our freedoms, but, stopping the flagging or limiting it to one flag per week, for instance, that does not take away our freedoms, it actually helps to guarantee our freedoms. Aslso, I've asked before, we must have a group of moderators who check each flagging and if there was no good reason, thne the flag should be reversed and the person who flagged should be flagged and the sum taken from him awarded to the intended victim.
All freedom comes with responsibility, but to assert that we should get together to form a strong group to fight against berniesanders and others like him, that is totally impractical. I am still at the early stages of trying to make myself a part of he community and am struggling to get ANYONE to read my posts - so how, in practical and not just theoretical terms, am I supposed to be capable of gathering posters by a number great enough for fighting people like him? None of this would be a problem if the investors make the change so that flagging costs or they stop it completely.
Flagging is only a tool for abusing and bullying those I do not agree with; it is not needed as a right!