Today I was attending a lecture about blockchain and cryptocurrencies and the lecturer said that freedom and safety don’t go together. You can have more freedom by abandoning safety. Would you agree?

  • cattywampas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yes, that’s the entire basis for the idea of the social contract. That you give up a little bit of freedom in exchange for security from living in a society.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      You’re talking about trade offs and maximization.

      That’s not reality yet. In reality, we have less freedom AND less safety than we could. There’s plenty of room to increase both.

      Once we get to a maximized state, then tradeoffs are necessary. But we’re very far from that at the moment.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      Social contract theory is statist propaganda. Even before I knew anything about politics or political theory I was so confused by this idea.

      It’s just there to create an illusion of consent for state oppression. Even though there’s no realistic way to opt out, and we never even decided to opt in in the first place.

      What kind of crazy contract is that?