Your basic problem is that you want to go after Scott Alexander specifically and the only way you can do this is: 1) say there's no right to publish pseudonymously and have your privacy respected or 2) become a crazy person who attacks random people for decade-old blog posts
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ah i see! so when i personally poison your glass of water, that's a violent attack and you should respond in kind. but when ed kurtz poisoned the drinking water of an entire city, that was just abstract policy the people of flint should have politely debated more strenuously.
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Voicing & implementing aren't the same thing. Saying "we should poison the water" isn't the same thing as poisoning the water.
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fucking...how? if the "proposal" was, like, "libras should be rounded up and put in camps," that would impact my life negatively, and in what way exactly am i wrong for considering it an attack on me?
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"Not the same thing" doesn't mean that a policy proposal can never be a personal attack. It just means that there needs to be an ADDITIONAL STEP between "negatively affects me" and "is attacking me." Proposing to raise taxes on you isn't an attack.
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