Continually amazed that people are shocked that humans, artists and art are imperfect and flawed. Yes. No human is everything. No art is complete. We should see that as the baseline. Purity and perfection are impossible and compassion is built on knowing we all have flaws.

Rather than moving into this bizarre space of yelling "BETRAYAL!" every time a flaw is discovered in art or humans, why not take a step back and understand the nuance of balance, the good and bad together, the fascination of complexity. Perfection doesn't exist. It would bore us.

I admit to getting alarmed when people demand full purity in art or humans because it suggests that those people have never done the work to develop empathy and compassion. Those are difficult qualities to develop and require a lifetime of study. Magical thinking won't advance it

Also, do these people demanding purity and perfection think *they* could met those standards when imposed by someone else? Because I have news for you, if so.

All we can do is try to better ourselves, live with virtue (kindness first) and extend that same compassion to others.

What is this headspace of behaving like 6,000 years of human history haven't existed? It's childlike. If you read history, if you read lit, if you move even a little beyond the world around your house, it's obvious perfection doesn't exist. Compare flaws with interest instead.

Honestly all of these outraged threads feel like some kind of childhood regression. Yes there are flaws in the world, in ppl, in art. Yelling about it as a betrayal is pointless. What are you going to do about it? What will you fix? What will you stand for with your own actions?

More importantly: How will you create art or literature or a contribution that's *different*? Because if you're not doing that, then all this tearing down of previous art with no plan to do better is just egotistical narcissism.

Reject what causes or implies harm. I won't consume music that's misogynistic or homophobic or transphobic, for instance. That also means being able to discuss why you draw those boundaries and what you want to see done differently. It means knowing which flaws you accept.