Which is why Bitcoin is an excellent idea. It fulfills the needs of the complex system, not because it is a cryptocurrency, but precisely because it has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users. And it has now a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.
L’idée reçue actuelle (donnée par des « experts » en relations internationales) veut que les chrétiens du Liban se seraient mis à parler français à partir de la période de « colonialisme français » — tout comme les habitants du Maghreb. Mais la France n’a gouverné le Liban que durant deux décennies, suite à la défaite des Ottomans pendant la Grande Guerre. Lors de ce « mandat » — qui était une sorte de concession — il n’y avait pas de colons français au Liban, contrairement à la situation du Maghreb.
Quand les chrétiens du Liban ont-ils commencé à parler français ?
The BBC did some kind of educational cartoon on Roman Britain and represented “diversity” in terms of someone looking African in the show as representative of “diversity” at the time. The BBC was effectively applying quotas retroactively (I mean, really retroactively). Any dissent from the statistical errors made by the politically correct police is treated as apostasy. Effectively, scholarship is dead in the U.K.
Hence the principle:
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life
and
If your private actions do not generalize then you cannot have general ideas
This is not strictly about ethics, but information transfer. If a car salesman tries to sell you a Detroit car while driving a Honda, he is signaling that it may have a problem.
The Skin of Others in your Game
The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up is not the worse-case scenario for them, nor the end-scenario at all. Making their families and loved ones bear a financial burden –just as Germans as still paying for war crimes –would immediately add consequences to their actions, inject that element of skin in the game that is needed. This requires some care in preventing their families from feeling martyrdom –the penalty needs to be properly calibrated to be a nuisance without imparting any form of heroism to the person.