Comment by radford-neal
6 years ago
Thanks for making quite clear that you are an opponent of the Enlightenment, and wish to return to a dark age in which people were slaughtered for having the wrong opinions on religion, or anything else - "better of without blogs like this" easily turns into "better of without blog authors like this".
If you get your wish, you may be quite surprised when it turns out that you are one of those killed. Deluded ideologues who think they are virtuously persecuting the heretics are useful up to a point, but when they become inconvenient for those who are manipulating them to achieve power, they're eliminated.
This is paranoid and delusional. I'm an anarchist opposed to using state violence to prevent anyone from speaking. The fact that I do not believe in the fetishistic conception of "the marketplace of ideas" does not mean that I want Scott Alexander beheaded. Indeed, the fact that he's closing his blog is proof enough that you don't need state power in order to push these kinds of backwards people out of mainstream discourse.