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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It's not about reading (or not) books written by dirtbags. It's about not rewarding known reprehensible behavior. I feel no remorse for reading (and even enjoying) works written by people who keep their bad behavior secret. But when I know better? And they cop to it? I'll reserve the right to refuse to enable them.
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Mostly this I how I see things as well, though it seems to reward an author's hypocrisy and secrecy about his or her past.
But then there's Anne Perry, who, as a teenager, helped her friend violently kill the friend's mother. When this information came out, it seemed especially distasteful to me that someone who'd killed wrote murder mysteries, so I resisted reading any of her books for a long time. Until one day I did, and continued to read her many excellent books.
I can't fully justify this to myself and my sense of ethics, except that the crime happened long ago when she was very young, and she was punished for it.