You force socialized medicine down our throats and then when the costs get out of hand, you want to regulate what people do with their own bodies? I think you're the idiot. What I do to my own body shouldn't affect you. If it does, that just means you need to mind your own business and get out of my life. I don't owe you anything. You're just some random stranger and I wouldn't trust you to park my car, much less make any life-altering decisions for me.

You see, according to the government's plan, I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-o all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".

If you buy $20 worth of BTC and then buy $20 worth of stuff with BTC, how exactly are you losing anything? You're not. This is just one of several myths surrounding Bitcoin. Another is that it has no intrinsic value. First of all, nothing has intrinsic value. If everyone decided gold was worthless tomorrow, it would be. What these people mean to argue is that BTC isn't a commodity. You can't do anything with it except use it as a medium of exchange. This too is a false. It's a proof-of-work system and can be used as a replacement for CAPTCHA's. Maybe I'm showing my age here but I remember HashCash and how that was supposed to stop email spam forever. Obviously, that didn't happen but Bitcoin has the same usage that HashCash did/does have. It's useful as a commodity. You can argue that it's overvalued compared to how much is actually used as a commodity but so is gold. How much gold do we really need to turn into audio connectors, food decorations, teeth, etc? I doubt it's enough to justify gold being somewhere around $50 a gram.

I find it hilarious that some people think that without copyright laws nobody would want to support artists when the very fact that copyright laws exist is a demonstration that people want to support artists! If you think it's not then that means you think that the majority of people don't really want to support artists but they do want the government to hold a gun to their heads and force them to do it. Huh? What?