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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9427140" data-attributes="member: 8461">Okay, that does make your position clearer; I found your take on it in the OP somewhat confusing, because it seemed to try and justify the issue based around economic questions of fair market value, which struck me as odd since the issue at question was an ethical one regarding a conflict of interest. In this case, I think that it's simply a difference of opinion. Which, it should be reiterated, is fine; people can and should have different takes on things.As I see it, just because something is "done all the time" doesn't make it right; saying that something is commonplace is near-totally orthogonal to issues of whether or not it's a "sin." Conflicts of interest should (to my mind) be avoided wherever possible, as a general rule; there's a reason why even the appearance of some kind of impropriety can be damaging, and understandably so, since it diminishes people's trust in the relevant people, groups, or what have you. Just because something passes legal/economic muster doesn't mean that it isn't self-serving, and so looks bad.Williams may or may not have paid fair market value for TSR's licensing Buck Rogers, and with nothing to suggest otherwise, we can assume for the purposes of this discussion that she did nothing wrong nor even unusual. But that doesn't mean it's not "sus," as the young people say.The receipt, in other words, is that she did it at all. Yes, you can compare that to Gygax and the Blumes hiring their relatives (though as I recall, Gary hired his wife and a few of his kids, whereas the Blumes went much further afield in their nepotism; Lorraine, by contrast, stopped at giving her brother a job), and those should also be called out for what they were. Multiple wrongs don't make any of them right. But if we hold that against them, which we should, then this should also be held against her.</blockquote>

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