Personally I think Jack is off the hook because there was no intention behind his original posting, the "what if" one. When we think of the amount of times we might have asked "what if this or that" in our lifetimes and hardly any of it ever happens, well then.
And I'm not so sure Jack could create such a situation for another person, because we seem to be in a large consensus that you can't, for instance, attract a particular romantic partner by IM, because that particular person has their own agenda. Looked at the situation this way, it would mean the uncle attracted a disease for a reason, and Jack attracted a situation in his life where a close relative contracted a disease, but then everybody is working together on some karmic level.
I also tend to think Tigerlilly might have something there, about how Jack might have intuited this situation before he knew about it for real.
This sure is not Metaphysics 101. It's grad level.
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