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Originally Posted by salty-horse
Teach me your secrets!
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With books I've never found it to be an issue. I've never felt that the author of a book is intrinsically linked to the story itself, nor are the crimes they've committed. (With some exceptions.) I don't think about the author while I'm reading, but about the characters, the world, the technology of the world, and so on. If an author's alive, like Orson Scott Card, I sure as hell won't buy any of their books so as to not support (in his case) bigotry financially, but I can still enjoy books written by him.
With music, it varies. When I'm in the mood to listen to 80s music I'm not going to leave out Michael Jackson's stuff, because no matter how awful a person he may have been, his music was
everywhere in the 80s. Leaving it out makes things feel incomplete. But an artist that wasn't such a giant for the era I might skip. (I don't really know of any other artists from the 80s accused of stuff like MJ was, so I can't give examples.)
curtw mentioned Bill Cosby, and that I totally agree on, but comedians
are intrinsically linked to the comedy they produce. I can't think of any way to listen to any comedian's stuff and not think of the person, so I'll never listen to Cosby's stuff again either. I never cared for his TV show, but he's pretty intrinsically linked to it as well, and you have to look at him while watching it,
so I can't see any way to watch that and not think about his misdeeds either.
But I have a very logical outlook on things, so it's probably easier for me to do this than most people. For example when I've had loved ones die I completely skip to the final stage of grief and just accept it immediately. I know there's nothing I can do to bring them back, there's nothing anyone else can do either, so... there's no point in doing anything but accepting it and going on with my life. I've learned over the years that very few people handle grief in this manner.