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On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Ivan Brightly <ibrightly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Jorge Tim=C3=B3n <jtimon@jtimon.cc> wrot=
e:
>>
>>
>> No, this is very important. The majority has no right to dictate on
>> the minority.
>
>
> While an interesting philosophical question, I don't think that this is
> accurate. First off, bitcoin doesn't imbue  any 'rights' on individuals -=
 it
> provides the choice of participating or not, nothing more.

I think you're not contradicting me: ff there's not rights built into
the system, the majority has no "right to dictate" anything.