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Is there an artist so horrible that no matter how hard you try that you cannot separate their art from them? (lemmy.world)

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Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Fine your analogy is in apt because you can get a fried chicken sandwich anywhere. It isnt exactly intellectual property.

Also you are muddling the difference between not being all knowing with not being consistent. Not the same thing at all.

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Don't muddy the water: you were talking specifically about chick-fil-A, even though I was using it as a generic example of a product people might get attached to. The 'separate the art from the artist' crowd would have you ignore any unpleasantness on the part of the producer, so long as the product is enjoyable in isolation - and hold it a moral failing not to do so.

And your entire point was that you couldn't be consistent because you werne't all-knowing; not knowing the character of your 800-year-old artist is no different in this instance from not knowing the future: to perfectly apply the principle would require full knowledge of every situation where it could possibly apply (which is of course impossible). This does not, I contend, render the principle, or attempts to apply it as consistently as your knowledge allows, worthless.

Do better, and try again.

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