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@ah Luke likes to @use strong anal
@ogy (or meta
@phor here,I guess).
I'm just saying the sweeping is kind of a different argument. And, I guess my response is that my house keeps getting dusty/dirty, and I keep dusting/cleaning.
I'll agree my analogy is more moral/systems-design focused, while your's is more the reality/futility of combatting the state of decay of the universe kind of thing.
The problem is more the 2nd-order effects. Both of our analogies are kind of extreme in certain ways. In reality, stopping a murder, sweeping/cleaning, etc. have 2nd-order effects beyond the immediate action.
For example, shutting down popular spam paths, even if more pop up, does have an impact on the broader spam 'industry'. Sure, some dev committed to destruction is going to make more paths just to prove their point. But, it has an overall impact. (And, to be fair to the Core advocates, they'd argue that impact is data more likely not in throw-away OP_Return.)
In reality, something more like The Cat is needed if the focus is truly wiping out spam in massive ways. But, remember, a large part of BIP-110 is the immediate threat of an open OP_Return (not complete spam elimination).
