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Discussion on: Can we separate the artist from their art? Should we?

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Dalmo Mendonça

Burzum, Emperor... lol no, I just pulled an extreme example.

What I meant by "drawing the line" was not only judging what's acceptable or not, but also about the level of abstraction between yourself and the artist in a certain context.

I won't say that arson is acceptable, but I would listen to Mayhem if I happened to like it. However I wouldn't go to a meet and greet and ask for autographs. Different contexts allow for greater or less abstraction.

An analogy with your original point would be: You're okay reading his book but not watching his videos.

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Andrew (he/him)

That's probably the best approach. Different levels of acceptance for different media / interactions with that media / that artist. Extremely subjective, unfortunately...