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People these days have no ability to separate the art from the artist. It's a shame. I guess it's their loss if they deprive themselves of perfectly good art because they don't like who made it.


I will gladly deprive myself of “art” made by admitted and convicted rapists. To each their own I suppose. I used to love Spacey.


It’s very hard to draw the line. I see your point I just find it intractable.

For example what if I told you that one of the executive producers of your favorite movie is a horrible felon? What if it was the editor ? Do you background check all of the contributors?

It also seems to me that people who achieved great things were either deeply traumatized or really disturbing individuals. A regular 9-5er who is an excellent family member, friend and has great morals rarely achieves greatness. I guess it really begs the question is it worth it?

I think historically we relied on the great work these horrible folks and conveniently scrubbed their horrible backgrounds.


You can separate the art from the artist and still not want the artist to make money.




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