<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>John7149</author><text>The act of mixing or laundering isn&amp;#x27;t per se illegal. The issue is government couldn&amp;#x27;t track illegal activities generated funds used in that mixing. It is the same with encryption, it isnt wrong when you encrypt but government will hunt you down if you export that tech to others. They will also hunt you down if you dont modify you encryption tech to their liking quietly. Even court sided with government in every countries. If you mixing the money in jar with a bunch of crook, and refuse to cooperate with government, they will hunt you down. So the issue isnt really they can&amp;#x27;t do the mixing. They didnt want to cooperate with government. Hence what we see now is just normal government hunting. Macfee and Bobby Fischer had gone thru this and paid dearly for not cooperating with government - legal or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>This is a super common argument strategy &amp;quot;on the internet&amp;quot; (but also at work with people who are too annoying for their own good, including myself). Just stripping away context until suddenly the thing you&amp;#x27;re saying is fine. People throwing out metaphors and similes as if shuffling around numbers on a hard drive and throwing pieces of metal and paper into a jar are the same thing.&lt;p&gt;And nobody is really immune to this line of thinking! There are people who scoff at &amp;quot;mixing cash into the jar is not illegal&amp;quot; but will state that &amp;quot;math can&amp;#x27;t be made illegal&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;you can&amp;#x27;t copyright numbers&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m definitely not immune to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is it legal to mix cash in a jar? How is Bitcoin mixing any different?</title><url>http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2023/11/is-it-legal-to-mix-cash-in-jar.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newZWhoDis</author><text>The reality is laws and civil order are an illusion, there’s what gets men with guns sent to your house and what does not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>This is a super common argument strategy &amp;quot;on the internet&amp;quot; (but also at work with people who are too annoying for their own good, including myself). Just stripping away context until suddenly the thing you&amp;#x27;re saying is fine. People throwing out metaphors and similes as if shuffling around numbers on a hard drive and throwing pieces of metal and paper into a jar are the same thing.&lt;p&gt;And nobody is really immune to this line of thinking! There are people who scoff at &amp;quot;mixing cash into the jar is not illegal&amp;quot; but will state that &amp;quot;math can&amp;#x27;t be made illegal&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;you can&amp;#x27;t copyright numbers&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m definitely not immune to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is it legal to mix cash in a jar? How is Bitcoin mixing any different?</title><url>http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2023/11/is-it-legal-to-mix-cash-in-jar.html</url></story>