Yes, exactly. I think those wrongdoings should be discovered another way since else, other rights that are more important to me go out the window. Privacy and free speech (since AML or similar laws can be used for censorship) are the first which come to my mind.

However, yes, I am also wondering if that would make it impossible to prevent cases where financial transactions are not good for society. 

Someone else in this post proposed to have Gov btc addresses public, so maybe something in this direction.

bitcoin

Change my mind: Large bitcoin transactions should not be private

kuroba

Well thanks for the upvote!

If I'm reading you right, you're saying that all entities should be presumed innocent until proven guilty, meaning their transactions should be private and any wrongdoing must be discovered another way. I'm open to that and do take that view regarding many things, but I'm wondering if in this case the wrongdoing would actually be impossible to discover if all transactions are private.