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if it's laudable to have done it, then it's not laudable to withhold it. All right, if it's laudable to withhold it then it must be coupled with, "You shouldn't ought to have
done it, it shouldn't be done." So one of the pair of the overt or the withhold is always laudable and always desirable. And the other one is undesirable. A laudable withhold is an undesirable action. (SH Spec 100, 6201C16)