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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Ok we’ve established that consideration needs to be given for when the society held different views than we do now, but what about authors within our time or who took action which was immoral and/or illegal in both their time and ours. MZB being a great example though not at the 100 year mark yet, I would be rather surprised if our views on her actions shifted dramatically in the next hundred years. She also has the benefit of being the author who got this thread going.
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I'm not sure that "we've established that..." at all. I think some of us think that. I think that there are others who think that one sort of criminal trespass of beliefs is worse than others, but...that's a topic for another day. or a different "forum," so to speak.
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Milo would be another example who I think would fall under similar lines.
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Yes.
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I think they’ve the right to publish, their work doesn’t call for harm to be done to specific individuals or groups. Though the two of them held/hold views which did/could lead to the harm of individuals. But so to do publishers have the right to not publish them. People are of course free to read or not read their books as they see fit.
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I'm sure that people struggle about MZB, especially those of us of a "certain age," that read her decades ago. I read her stuff
long before any of this was known;
Mists was a fave of mine, nearly 40 years ago now. Darkover...well, look. She could write. She was, purportedly (I do want to separate accusations from legal conclusions) a horrible human being and it's hard to believe that a woman that wrote what she wrote did that of which she is accused. But...that's what we're talking about.
Publishers gonna publish and readers gonna read; One of MZB's former writing partners
still writes in the Avalon series. Is it 'bad' for her to continue to make money off of a universe created by MZB? Man...lotta stuff to consider there.
Hitch