my red line is where it stops being money and starts being a generic database.

As a node runner, you should be happy to verify your incoming transactions as valid. That's why you're running the node, right? My red line is economic transactions, I consider almost all other transactions as spam and waste, but I really don't get to say what others want to do with their bitcoin. If Bitcoin continues to work, then in the end, block space will be so valuable that only economic transactions will be rational.

You have every right to refuse to relay stuff with your own computer. That is indisputable.

You're absolutely right.

And you may have an incentive to relay some things but not other things according to your self interest. This becomes a technical debate that gets into economics and whatnot too, and I guarantee you either do not understand the other side's position or you are engaging dishonestly.

Node runners don't get paid to do work. Still makes zero economic sense to run a Bitcoin node. Bitcoin makes less sense each day.

Running a node is about eliminating trust. It only makes economic sense to do so if you have a lot to lose.

Cypherpunk Cogitations

Securing Your Financial Sovereignty

How and why to defend your bitcoin with a full node.

Not much money to be made in snuff films. Who would be paying to upload this gabage? Doubt they could do much of this longterm. Unlawful acts like murder, filming murder, paying to upload it to a blockchain would obviously agressively prosecuted at the source. My node validating a transaction that contains a provably upspendable UTXO with questionable content, that I can then drop forever.......doubt this will be a problem