The discussion is regarding the data being allowed and the technical framework (incentives) around it. OPReturn as a vessel for arbitrary data etc. This is all technical. The morality piece is a next layer abstraction presuming what people *might* do when given the technical capability. That is when the subjective morality piece comes in. Yes, morality, culture and power dynamics are part of it but it stems from the incentives amd disincentives presented by each proposed technical solution. Im not saying those are irrelevant. Im saying that the assumptions made by assuming someone's morality based on the implementation they support without other evidence is not constructive in the big picture. Lets say I support bip110. Lets say bip110 forks and becomes the primary chain. But it came about by slandering and shitting on non bip110-ers. Great, you win the battle and bip110 is "bitcoin" and youve "won" the culture war within the bitcoin echo chamber. But the rest of the world doesn't make that distinction. All they see are bitcoiners as immoral criminals or whatever labels the winning camp placed on the losing camp and vice versa. From a hyperbitcoinization/adoption perspective, this hurts in the long run. We don't all agree but for those of us wanting sovereign freedom money, we are all aiming for the same general goal. We don't all agree on how we get there but if we continue the infighting, there will be no one left to defend bitcoin when the bigger enemy scoops down. Call it moral high ground or whatever you want but im looking at the bigger long term picture.

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People that are outside of this debate or outside of Bitcoin have no idea this debate is even going on. That argument just makes no sense. We are inside an echo chamber of an echo chamber. Not that it's not important, but I'm saying that because the vast majority of people aren't even looking at Bitcoin because the price is down and even if they are, the majority don't know shit about bip110. The people who support BIP110 are the ones thinking long term. If bip110 fails, Bitcoin will likely not fail immediately, but it's culture and rule structure will likely be morally wounded. Miners and developers will know that they are the ones that can make the rules, and the nodes will loose their power. Developers and large Bitcoins institutions like exchanges and industrial miners/pools will now be open to capture by the state and by extension the rules of Bitcoin, and will no longer be protected by the anon, globally distributed network of nodes.
I disagree with the notion that the outside world has no idea what's going on. They certainly don't know the nuances of what we are arguing about. All they see is the headline saying things like "Bitcoin promotes CSAM" or "Bitcoin founder found in Epstein files" or other similar rage bait type headlines. The world is in fact watching. Just the other day, Bitcoin came up in conversation with some normie aquaintences. One of the first things they said was, I heard the bitcoin founder guy was a pedophile and theres kiddie porm shared on bitcoin... they don't differentiate between the various arguments. They take every single headline and attribute it to Bitcoin. Not core, not knots, not bip110. They simply lump all the headlines in and count it all as crypto (maybe a fee discerning can identify Bitcoin as being dofferent). That said, fair point that here on nostr its an echo chamber of an echo chamber... but most people opining are doing so outside of just nostr. Its public facing and its all bad PR.
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