#they'll do whatever they can to ruin someone's reputation just because they were a shitty person

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One thing that conversation came extremely close to but (I was smart enough) not to touch on is the idea of people's "right to know." I think the point I was trying to get at (that I did a bad job of explaining) is that there's a difference between a shitty person and a horrible person. Shitty people are shit, yes, but that doesn't mean you should ruin their lives over it.

And going back to people's right to know, one of the people in that conversation mentioned about "putting your experience out there but not telling people what to do" and that's like absolutely stuck in my mind. In my personal opinion, it's nobody's business to know the business of shitty people and how shit they are. Horrible people, yes, but not shitty people.

It reminds me of this story I read a few months back about a fanfiction author that had two Ao3 accounts. On one, they put g-rated stories that were really popular. On another, they had stories that dealt with things such as rape, incest, etc. They kept both accounts completely separate with nobody knowing they were the author of both. Someone found out and was so horrified that they basically doxxed their g-rated account and ruined that person's rep online. Now comes the question. Was that doxxer right to do so?

It scares me to think that majority of the people online would say yes, that they would hate to enjoy any fics written by someone that likes horrible things. That yes, that they have the right to know. Am I the only person who thinks that's wrong? That, even if this person is into horrible things, they don't deserve to have their lives ruined over it? Am I the only person to think that's completely insane to just spread out to the world?

There's this weird purity culture going on in the world that you are not allowed to enjoy things made by bad people. That you're not allowed to support them. That if you enjoy these things, that is a direct reflection of you and your character. That because you enjoy this author's g-rated works, you must condone their personal kinks as well. If you consider them a good writer, you must support rape and incest as well.

Am I insane to think that that's none of your business? That you shouldn't go about life vetting every tidbit of entertainment you take in to make sure that it's good and pure? That everyone has evil things about themselves that they are not proud of and preferably don't want spread to the world? That just because you had a bad experience with someone, you have no right to air their dirty laundry to millions of people online? Am I the only person that thinks that's cruel?