Refusing to publish someone’s work is not a punishment. He doesn’t have the right to be published.
Bad argument IMO. Of course that’s a punishment. If it was a case of people refusing to publish someone’s work for non sexual assault based reasons, we would consider it a punishment.
No. That is now how publishing works. Dark Horse is under no obligation to publish anyone’s work for any reason. It’s their money.
So this is not refusing to let a child play video games, this is refusing to buy a child a video game. And if you think that’s a punishment, you were one spoiled child.
Except he was already being published? This is a direct response to the allegations, so it’s defacto a punishment.
To continue the analogy, if a kid get a copy of the new Fifa game at Christmas every year, then one year he get into a fight or something and his parent decides not to buy him Fifa anymore as a direct consequence of that, then it is 100% a punishment.
They are taking a disciplinary action against them as a direct consequence of their actions. That’s by definition a punishment.
Refusing to publish someone’s work is not a punishment. He doesn’t have the right to be published.
If he still wants it published, there are plenty of vanity presses out there.
Bad argument IMO. Of course that’s a punishment. If it was a case of people refusing to publish someone’s work for non sexual assault based reasons, we would consider it a punishment.
Why does he have a right to be published by Dark Horse?
He doesn’t have the “right” to. But something not being a right doesn’t mean denying it isn’t a punishment?
Kids don’t have the “right” to play video games, but a parent can still punish their child by refusing to let them play them, no?
No. That is now how publishing works. Dark Horse is under no obligation to publish anyone’s work for any reason. It’s their money.
So this is not refusing to let a child play video games, this is refusing to buy a child a video game. And if you think that’s a punishment, you were one spoiled child.
Except he was already being published? This is a direct response to the allegations, so it’s defacto a punishment.
To continue the analogy, if a kid get a copy of the new Fifa game at Christmas every year, then one year he get into a fight or something and his parent decides not to buy him Fifa anymore as a direct consequence of that, then it is 100% a punishment.
They are taking a disciplinary action against them as a direct consequence of their actions. That’s by definition a punishment.
Nope. It’s a PR move. They want to mitigate financial damages from being associated with an (alleged abuser).
Stop treating this like a moral act. It’s a corporation: they’re more interested in the bottom line.
No. The book has not come out yet. Therefore he was not already being published. It hadn’t even gone to press yet.
You are working really, really hard here to pretend a man worth millions of dollars is facing hardship over this and it’s ridiculous.
Stop defending elites.