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Who are you to assume that he wouldn't want his works remembered, and that this would be a disservice to him? Who are you to assume his wishes?
>We don't publish the formula for Coca Cola
We should.
>Stop cheating the rules. It makes me not want to write, not want to work.
Then don't. If the destruction of knowledge is what you want, you would be better off burning books than writing them.
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Who are you to assume that he wouldn't want his works remembered, and that this would be a disservice to him? Who are you to assume his wishes?
>We don't publish the formula for Coca Cola
We should.
>Stop cheating the rules. It makes me not want to write, not want to work.
Then don't. If the destruction of knowledge is what you want, you would be better off burning books than writing them.