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FaultyCircuitry posted...

When you have a choice to consume media made by a bad person, you are supporting that person intentionally.

There is a fucking canyon of difference between buying a phone and buying a piece of media.

And human beings are not perfectly rational actors. The truth is that, many times, we form emotional attachments to things that, rationally, we know we could live without, but emotionally, it's hard (or for many people, even impossible) to detach from those things. We do it with people, and especially art.

And we also don't always know the way these attachments are formed. There are people where stuff like Harry Potter might have come out at the right time to help them deal with depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety or whatever else they might have been going through. Most of the time, the way you alienate people is by refusing to acknowledge that their connections to these things exist and not offering them anything else in return.