I apologize for the "cops kicking a kids teeth in" part of my argument.

When a boxer punches another boxer in the ring, why isn't it a rights violation? Because they entered the ring voluntarily.

By the same token, when a steem participant loses rewards based on the rules of the system they voluntarily chose to participate in, it's not stealing or "unjustified" in the sense that government violence is unjustified.

We might want the voting system to be different or disagree with the whales behavior, but there is no rights violation. There is no aggression or initiation of force in the way that government does, because government is not voluntary, and steem is. Hive account@barrycooper