Well I don’t believe it is, but if the Sulzbergers are that sure then we can shut down the New York Times for a trial decade and see if New York dies.
This is a reversion to tribal morality, that anything that violates social norms is a literal threat to the community.
This is the moral reasoning Islam uses to equate blasphemy and open dissent of Shariah mandates with attempted murder of all believers .... and justifies executing them to protect society.