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Dante
Feb 8, 2003

This has always struck me as an interesting, but also a relatively straightforward, ethical question where everyone more or less has the same answer. At some point the benefits of enjoying the art outweighs the moral cost of somewhat contributing to a bad person/companys profits. If they're dead it's pretty much a non-issue, I don't think viewing a Picasso painting or reading a Hamsun novel gives any meaningful support to misogyny or nazism. There's a subset of this discussion where a small group of people don't want to engage with art or content produced by people with different values or voting records at all. That I don't think is an ethical standpoint as much as weirdly cultish and feels somewhat identical to the idea of "christian" bookstores etc.

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