# The DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization

**URL:** https://forum.duniter.org/t/the-dao-is-a-decentralized-autonomous-organization/921
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**Created:** [29 May 2016 14:43 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/the-dao-is-a-decentralized-autonomous-organization/921 "2016-05-29T14:43:31Z")
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### Author: ![cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/user_avatar/forum.duniter.org/cgeek/32/279_2.png) [@cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/u/cgeek)
#### Post date: [30 May 2016 15:46 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/the-dao-is-a-decentralized-autonomous-organization/921/26 "2016-05-30T15:46:45Z")

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It is a reference to what you said (you recurrently say things “must” do this, “must” be like this, … so I highlighted several times the **must** keywork during our answers for you to understand the point):

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> Words **must** be defined strictly as a result of their etymology.

So when you add:

> [@demo](#):
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> **You must** [use an etymologically correct language,] **if** […]

I answer, OK, that’s fine, “I do not have to”, “I don’t \>\> **must** \<\<” do anything, I am free to not be in the position behind your “if […]”.

So I am pointing out how much absolutist your propositions are. You regularly coin phrases of the form “things **must** be that way”.

I say no. Things never have to be “this way” or “this other way”. It always depends of the referential you evaluate things against. So if you evaluate words against the “demo definition of what should be a word and what it shouldn’t be”, then _yes_, of course, the definition of a word is what it “etymologicaly means”, because you chose this referential of evaluation.

But if you evaluate words against the “chinese definition of what is a word in the chinese language”, then they won’t agree with the fact “banana” is a word.

And of course I add that, if you don’t understand this point, then you probably should not use libre currencies because you deny the relativity principle.

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