A discussion of why separating the art from the artist is a valid approach. Lionel Shriver explains that she doesn't "need to be morally protected."

"The arts consumer has a right to the stuff. I want the books, the movies, the paintings made by these imperfect people. Just because the people who made them are imperfect doesn't mean that the work they make is not wonderful."

"I don't care who made them. I'm just interested in the books. I want to look at the paintings. I want to listen to the music. And I don't care who made it. And I'm not prescriptive and I'm not saying that everyone has to [think] this way."

"This notion seems to have taken hold that the purpose of art is to morally instruct... This whole idea that what motivates people to go to the arts, and why we have the arts, is just to promote virtue is perverse. And also produces--big surprise--bad art."