Boy I'm sure not winning any friends this week in the hypothetical question thread department.
Ok, I outright refuse to participate in this pretentious and self serving bit of mind wank.
The reason being is if you divorce an intellectual property from its creator, even if you are only doing so in the confines of your own mind, I feel you are guilty of criminally stealing another individuals ideas for your own personal gain.
Human beings are quite complex creatures with many attractors and detractors. If you cannot accept the fact that sometimes individuals with quite extreme differences in personal philosophy can sometimes find common ground, then you are the ones who are flawed.
Asking those of us to like an intellectual property regardless of its creator's origin is just as wrong for example, as Orson Scott Card asking for us to judge Ender's Game only on its own merits as a story rather than to factor in it's own creator's view of the world we inhabit, and just who will benefit from our financial patronage of his ideas.
Ok, I outright refuse to participate in this pretentious and self serving bit of mind wank.
The reason being is if you divorce an intellectual property from its creator, even if you are only doing so in the confines of your own mind, I feel you are guilty of criminally stealing another individuals ideas for your own personal gain.
Human beings are quite complex creatures with many attractors and detractors. If you cannot accept the fact that sometimes individuals with quite extreme differences in personal philosophy can sometimes find common ground, then you are the ones who are flawed.
Asking those of us to like an intellectual property regardless of its creator's origin is just as wrong for example, as Orson Scott Card asking for us to judge Ender's Game only on its own merits as a story rather than to factor in it's own creator's view of the world we inhabit, and just who will benefit from our financial patronage of his ideas.