Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that discussing the idea that there ought to be some centralized tool by which an outside party could control the BTC holdings of individuals and the value of the BTC market were frowned upon by this community. I must be mistaken. Please, do go on and tell me why the guy who has publicly said that it'd be an OK idea to negate the value of any BTC I may have some day, simply because 'they', those in control of that tool, claim that that BTC has been somewhere they didn't like is worthy of my praise and respect. Because I'm SURE that such a tool could and would NEVER be used in a manner that would benefit those controlling it, right? Fire away, I'm all ears.
I think you are mistake in your intuition that everyone in the space would consider find-grained control of who used Bitcoin for what purposes to be a bad thing.
In my observation there are plenty of people who welcome this kind of control and see it as a positive and even a necessity. This point was driven home at the San Jose 2013 convention. As far as I'm concerned, Hearn has always been of this mindset and has never been terribly shy about promoting it (to his credit.)
In my opinion, there is nothing inherently wrong about this position. Most of the arguments make by those who take this position are completely rational in my opinion.
I hold an opposite opinion. I'm not a Libertarian, but philosophically I do believe that if one is free to make only good choices then that is not really 'freedom' at all.
From an engineering, political, and practical perspective, my complaint against trying to enforce only 'good' behavior is that it creates complexity and opens up giant doors for abuse. I don't believe that the Bitcoin community could ever stop 'criminality' but only push it into a different sphere and one which is probably even more pernicious.
Worse still, some Iranian family trying to sell shoes would be (and are) considered criminals because the certain power structures wish it to be so. I disagree, and I welcome a tool which allows me to express my will. If this is not Bitcoin, then there will be something else.
