The mental health analogy is a good one and there are many parallels to the current situation. Incarcerating criminals is another one. The use types of decisions are really difficult, and I am not 100%

I feel my goals and actions are in alignment with that statement.

They have already agreed not to use those operations. I do not see an enforcement of an agreement that they made as censorship. If they had not agreed to it and I was blocking them, then it would be a

Yes, we would have seven days. We have had a ton of time to prepare for this, and there have been tons of signs pointing to this possibility for some time. Sorry, but I am not going to accept our lack

I don’t view the stake that Tron owns as the community’s property. I am not going to let them change their mind at a whim and go back on their word without any warning or notice. If they want to have a

Understood, and that was one of my biggest hesitations before deciding to proceed. In the end, my decision was based on the fact that my node with 22.1 was already in a state where I would fork if Tron

If they make an attempt to power down their stake, the Steem community can fork and move on with a new chain without them.

It was probably a poor choice of words given the situation, but the reality is that there are people in the Tron community (including Tron) who are interested in working with Steemians, and there are Steemians

All fair points. There is no perfect way through this situation. Something has to give, and in this particular situation the fact that Tron poses a real threat to the security of the blockchain combined

I understand the arguments behind why the more restrictive hardfork is more secure. We have a way to deal with the potential outcomes though without violating the property rights of a stakeholder. I fully

To me, it's just as bad to block two ops as it is to block twelve. Fair enough, although to me the issue was never about blocking ops. Even our RC system blocks ops (which is not done through consensus

I am unsure. It is a good question and I will have to think about it.

Thank you

I don't know, but it is possible.

They did already publicly agreed to not vote on witnesses though.

I don’t foresee that in the future, although once/if SMTs launch you may be able to launch a new SMT token that doesn’t allow downvoting.

All of us (myself included) are working to ensure that does not happen.

Hi Justin. I will be there. I strongly believe that both the Tron and Steem ecosystems have a lot to gain by working together. I am excited for the potentail that the future holds. There are a lot of concerns

There are limitations on what can be changed "in secret" in that if the consensus rules are changed, other entities in the ecosystem (exchanges, seeds, full nodes, etc.) have go "agree"