Are you saying it's possible to construe "fraud" as if it was a non-moral term? How so? In what sense is fraud ever not a moral thing (specifically, a very immoral thing)?
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I'm saying you are overlaying your moralistic viewpoint and assigning words to something unrelated. Nowhere did the white paper mention the word "fraud".
Satoshi’s purpose in preventing double spending was to make purely peer-to-peer electronic cash possible without trusting a central authority.
If you want to call double spending "fraud" that's fine but there is nothing moral about it. You could as easily just call it theft if done intentionally. In order for a permissionless peer-to-peer payment system to operate there needs to be mechanisms in place to prevent it. At no point is it necessary to bring feels into it.
> Nowhere did the white paper mention the word "fraud"
It uses it three times
