No, just hating blasphemy. Almost everyone wants at least some things to be crimes; hating freedom won’t tell you anything as specific as making blasphemy (but not other random acts) one. Banning blasphemy is hating freedom like legalizing blasphemy is misotheism.
The word “probably” is key: this is a Bayesian inference based on the actual state of the world. There is enough disagreement about how bad blasphemy is that wanting to ban it is significant evidence of placing a low value on freedom.
Oh, obviously they place a low value on freedom. But if we elide between “cares a lot less about x than me” with “cares negatively about x,” I think we’ve missed Eliezer’s point here. The modal capitalist ideologue doesn’t hate equality or piety or whatever.
What Aaron Brown said.
Anyone who wants to make blasphemy a crime is probably guilty of “hating freedom”.
No, just hating blasphemy. Almost everyone wants at least some things to be crimes; hating freedom won’t tell you anything as specific as making blasphemy (but not other random acts) one. Banning blasphemy is hating freedom like legalizing blasphemy is misotheism.
The word “probably” is key: this is a Bayesian inference based on the actual state of the world. There is enough disagreement about how bad blasphemy is that wanting to ban it is significant evidence of placing a low value on freedom.
Oh, obviously they place a low value on freedom. But if we elide between “cares a lot less about x than me” with “cares negatively about x,” I think we’ve missed Eliezer’s point here. The modal capitalist ideologue doesn’t hate equality or piety or whatever.
“Anyone who wants to make disturbing the peace a crime is probably guilty of ‘hating freedom’”
No, they have different priorities from you.
Not mutually exclusive, and can be a nicer way of saying the same thing.