I feel like what people need to see, for their satisfaction, sense of justice, schadenfreude, amusement, or whatever is the bad actor broken and humbled, and never doing it again. This Eddings guy did some horrific stuff, then wrote some books people liked. Was he properly broken and humbled first? I don’t know.
I think it matters, cause yeah, learning about people you liked and respected who got away with being awful sucks, whether they directed your favorite movie or just bagged your groceries perfectly, doesn’t matter, you feel scammed, fooled, and pissed about it, if I’d only known…
But once busted and shamed, and jailed, or fined or whatever, even bad people need to get on with their life. While I share the immediate impulse that no never can they do the thing they love again, I also, well, maybe, eventually in some capacity think that reformed people should be back contributing to society, to its culture.
This Joss fork doesn’t seem to have any self awareness of his actions, or seems to think he can explain them away still, so, yeah, i’m still on the dogpile side, but should he figure it out, or at least figure out acting the part of a pride broken, maybe there’s time when even people much worse than him can be allowed do use their talents again?