Maybe mr metz could have written under a pseudonym in order to avoid the very serious threats on his life

Have you ever had random people harass you and threaten violence towards you in heavy numbers? No amount of resolve will keep that from being a deeply stressful situation.

I don't doubt it's not fun, but I also don't think that either you or Mr Metz really give a shit. Rather, you like to bandy about this harassment as proof that your opponents are evil (of course, when it's your opponents being harassed, then that's a sort of divine punishment, and hence also proof that they're evil). If it were any other way, then you wouldn't particularly bring it up in reference to scott, since there isn't much of anything scott can do about other people committing harassment. Furthermore, you might express a degree of sympathy for his efforts to avoid harassment by not having his dox published in the nyt, rather than indignantly expounding on your god given right to publish whatever you feel like.