Crime Against Humanity: the Bill, 6
Survival depends upon being cause and not effect, this in turn is based on taking responsibility, and taking responsibility means recognising that one is cause, observing how one is cause, and thus how one can be more cause. Being cause means controlling, therefore includes that you can control and own, and that you can continue to do so, whereas being prevented from doing so demolishes responsibility and thus shifts one from cause to effect; therefore certainty of property rights is vital to survival.
Survival depens upon the power to exercise one’s freedom, too, as we happen to be made to be free and resent being enslaved, and so we’re better when free and worse when slaves, and one’s freedom is not merely reacting to external causes more than it is being subject to them, because in both cases one is effect, whereas being cause means being self−determined, whatever one decides; therefore freedom is vital to survival.
And counterfeiting eats away at each one of these foundations. A counterfeiter robs you and you barely realise you’ve been robbed, much less there is a counterfeiter and the counterfeiter is the one who robbed you. Rather, you develop the idea that there is no certainty under the sun and one can’t count on things – and on preserving your purchasing power and hard−earned savings in particular. You grow apathetic: apathetic about your property rights, since your savings can just vanish into thin air; apathetic about being cause, since there’s nothing you can do; apathetic about being free, since you’re in thrall to the unfathomable, and finding yourself unwittingly stabbed in the back is just in the “natural” order of things.
Apathy, the most basic, the most undetected, and thus the most dangerous human terminal disease: the more one is sick, the more one agrees with the disease and is willing to get sicker, instead of healing up.
It has been said that willingness and goodwill are all you’ll ever have; these, freedom and honest money combined are what every civilisation worth the name was built upon, until the moneypulators begun to hollow each of them out from the inside until its final collapse.
