We don't know what has happened as many have said. That's the end of that line of discussion.

But lets assume for the sake of the argument that he actually was either a coward or a traitor would that change for me what I like about his music and his many contributions to folk music. I'm one of those persons who (mostly) can separate different actions of a person. It would not change a bit for me my admiration for his musical contributions.

There are limits to that, of course. If a mass murderer, say Hitler, would have written a beautiful song I still could admire in a technical way his artful choice of words and a fine tune, but the song would be dead for me for I could never hear or sing it without the ugly associations.

But we are not talking mass murderer here we are talking at worst traitor or coward and even that seems unlikely to me, much less likely for instance than M.Ted's idea.

Wolfgang