The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.

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    vigilantes don’t have a monopoly on violence and a labyrinthine bureaucracy preventing policy change

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      A monopoly on violence is usually a good thing. The alternative is war, either on a local level (gang wars) or national (civil war). Wars are generally to be avoided.

      And policy change may be hard, but changing the attitudes of a mob is much harder. We passed laws against racism in the 1960s, we still haven’t eliminated racist mobs.

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        A monopoly on violence is usually a good thing. The alternative is war

        that’s a false dichotomy

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          Well, at least one alternative is war. Which I prefer to avoid, even if it requires a monopoly on violence.

          And I will always prefer one group threatening violence to rule-breakers to multiple groups threatening violence to rule-breakers. Especially since multiple sets of rules are more likely to be contradictory.