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Originally Posted by anamardoll
So without bringing up He Who Must Not Be Named, I was intrigued by a recent thread wherein someone contended that deliberately not buying the (unrelated) works of someone for having different views than you was a trampling of the freedom of expression/speech.
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First this. The freedom of speech doesn't imply a non-freedom of listening. Somebody can say whatever they want, but they can't make me listen to them.
About the poll items: I usually don't know anything about the author, but his or her name. I often don't even know if it's a pseudonym or not...
In those rare cases where I might not like the way a person thinks/talks/whatever, the chances of me liking his or her books is small too and I wouldn't buy that book on the basis that I probably won't like the book.