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Building the exit while ignoring the fire is not wisdom, it’s abandonment. Yes, we build. Yes, we create parallel systems. Yes, Bitcoin and Nostr represent genuine alternatives to corrupted institutions. But the idea that focusing on systemic abuse of children is somehow playing into “their” hands is a moral cop out dressed up as strategic thinking. You can frame a house while calling the fire department. You can plant a garden while still reporting the predator in your neighborhood. These are not competing priorities. They are complementary responsibilities. The children being trafficked and abused by elites are not a distraction from building a better world. They are the reason we build it. If our new systems are just escape pods for those privileged enough to understand Bitcoin while we turn our backs on the most vulnerable, then we have built nothing of lasting value. The powerful want silence, not attention. They want us looking away, not asking questions. They want us to accept that some crimes are too big to prosecute, some networks too connected to expose. Calling that acceptance “focus” is exactly the kind of rationalization that lets evil persist. We build the exit AND we kick down the door. Anything less is just building a nicer cage while pretending we found freedom.