https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/occupy-bitcoin-bitcoin-is-not-just-libertarian
As a political philosophy, libertarianism says nothing about respecting others' views and lifestyles -- let alone celebrate and cherish stupidities and absurdities. It certainly doesn't prescribe us to live and let live.
It says we MAY NOT USE VIOLENCE (= esp STATE coercion) to enforce beliefs we may have onto others.
It doesn't say I have to be nice. It doesn't implore me to be compassionate. It doesn't mean I have to respect and allow into my home dispicable and degenerate shit.
I can insult you all I want. I can refuse to engage with you because you're ugly, vegan, "autistic," or believe that Bitcoin is compatible with leftism. I can ridicule your pathetic ideas or lifestyle, in public or in private. I can tell Bitcoin Isn't About You (npub1xap…cnde) off for thoroughly misunderstanding what libertarian means or what its philosophy or ethics prescribes, or Yaël (npub15dn…3lfc) who certainly should know better.
Libertarianism is a non-smart contract: it asks about physical violence, initiation of force, and state power. Nothing more.
The rest-- religion, etiquette, values, behavior -- it relegates to a social level.
Living in harmony with others doesn't mean to embrace any odd retarded thing they do or say. it means to NOT throw them in jail for it
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quoting"The actions of a massive portion of the active community, at least online, act in complete contradiction with the principles of libertarianism. Freedom, liberty, and voluntary interaction. Many rightwing or libertarian Bitcoiners encourage the exact opposite of that, they bully and intimidate and push people to adopt their worldview."
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Obviously the pareto principle (80-20) applies here.
I was part of the "libertarian" wave of bitcoin in 2013 and today, we're mostly focused on topics other than thought-policing the values of other bitcoiners.
Real libertarianism respects different views and lifestyles, and in fact is supposed to wholeheartedly respect and defend the right to do things in your own way as long as you don't hurt other people.
If there is some online reactionary movement, it is people who generally view bitcoin twitter/nostr as a sport and they don't really understand nor live the principles.
You made that latter point, Bitcoin Isn't About You (npub1xap…cnde), so I agree with you.
A necessary article, though it should be targeted at the few rather than the many.
Live and let live, laissez-faire.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/occupy-bitcoin-bitcoin-is-not-just-libertarian?new