Bring enough people together with varied enough opinions and each of them will feel their own personal deep concerns are worth wielding pitchforks for. Eventually every conflict will involve pitchforks and the temperature of any discussion will be high enough that all you have are flames whereupon conflicts will just be hidden from public view and taken care of under the table so as not to risk the public flames of wrath.

The comment would have been better without the strained analogy.

One counter argument to the gp might be something like: this is exactly the kind of expertise The Tor Project should want to consult.