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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think it's just plain wrong to do that.
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How intolerant and judgmental of you…
But actually I agree that an accusation without evidence against a specific person is not a good thing to do, even though I don’t feel my snarky comments rise to that level. And if I’d spent more than a second on my off-hand remark, I might have worded it differently:
I can’t be so naïve as to believe someone doesn’t have a copy of that drive.
Still, I’m curious by such language as “just plain wrong to do that.” In this age when humanity has supposedly thrown off the shackles of a transcendent moral code, what is “wrong” at all about a guy making random comments on the internet, even if your personal gut reaction is that it is out of bounds? Sure, I generally agree that it’s wrong, but why do
you think is it wrong? If you’re going to be accusing me of some moral violation, please cite for me the supposed code that I have violated. (I have weighed my remarks against libel laws, and do not feel they qualify. If you do believe they qualify, you are welcome to do what is in your power to begin legal proceedings against me.)
So I am going to double down on the joke:
In the two and a half years since Mr. Pratchett passed away, I find it impossible to believe that his personal assistant or lawyer has not created or secured a backup copy of the hard drive that was just destroyed a couple weeks ago. His public comments have already made it clear that he has read portions of those unfinished works. Are we really to believe that he didn’t make himself a copy of those works?