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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8526154" data-attributes="member: 7023887">There's a difference between "keep reading the books" and "keep giving the author money", and many people will have different opinions on where to draw the line. Some people think that continuing to read the books perpetuates her presence in the mainstream and is still a form of supporting her, while others think that merely no longer financially supporting her is enough. It's not my place to draw the line in these distinctions. Currently, I think that as long as you believe that you're no longer supporting her, that is the moral choice. Giving her money is objectively supporting her, so I'm more inclined to draw the line there, but can also see the argument that reading her books and watching the movies is still supporting her. Additionally, Rowling only became outspoken in her bigotry recently (2020, IIRC). It's immoral to support someone that you know is a bigot, but if you didn't know before, you didn't have that choice, so you did not make an immoral decision. It's like if you learn that the company that makes a certain brand of clothes uses child slavery in other countries to make the clothing. If you didn't know this beforehand, even though you supported them, you weren't immoral in doing so because you didn't have the choice. But if you continue to support them while knowing that they're still using those vile practices, that is an immoral choice. (This isn't an argument supporting willing ignorance, either. If you purposefully ignore the possibility that your actions are harmful, that is immoral, too.)When you know better, you do better. We didn't know back then, so it wasn't immoral to support her. Now it is.</blockquote>

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