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What about if you buy something you thought you understood, but that’s only because you were lied to?

There has never been a shortage of liars of every kind that seek to steal your money. Somewhat rarer, incompetents who handle your property stupidly. If you care for your money at all, the only person to fault is you.

I can try to seek "justice", but this rarely happens with cons that really know what they are doing. It is what I call victim thinking. That you do something stupid and then get bailed out by some authority.

It seems like you believe that trusting anyone is stupid.

Still on you. Who did you trust that lied to you? Then starting to ask oneseld: Why did you trust them in the first place. Understanding that part would make it possible not fall for it the second time.

Luckily in many cases this is in fact not “on you”, but rather is a crime, or is subject to civil litigation depending on the nature of the fraud in question. This helps to avoid instances of retributive violence, which is the general solution when a legal system isn’t available.

That's fiat thinking, which is exactly what crypto people want to avoid.

How do they plan to avoid violence when there are betrayals of trust?

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