Charitable interpretation of dystopianists: they’re using the outside view.
Uncharitable interpretation of dystopianists: they can come up with persuasive young adult novels against any change, regardless of whether the change would be bad or not. “I can make a narrative in which this is a bad thing” != “this is a bad thing”.
But don’t you need to get a gears-level model of how blackmail is bad to think about how dystopian a hypothetical legal-blackmail sociey is ?
Charitable interpretation of dystopianists: they’re using the outside view.
Uncharitable interpretation of dystopianists: they can come up with persuasive young adult novels against any change, regardless of whether the change would be bad or not. “I can make a narrative in which this is a bad thing” != “this is a bad thing”.