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This is the crux of a lot of the counter arguments to 'cancel culture'. Don't get me wrong, if you're a racist shitbag, or a pedophile, you are a terribly flawed human, but that doesn't detract from other merits in other areas in my opinion. This may seem like a cop out, or an excuse for shitty behavior, but in my view you can be 'Flying Squid, the Nobel Laureate in physics and Racist Cocksniffer'. Humans are very complex beings: how can we fit them into black and white categories of good and bad?
I had an emotionally volatile childhood, devoid of positive influences that were beyond reproach. People I looked up to certainly had their flaws. I quickly learned to take the best out of what they had to offer, and be mindful of their faults. If we simply discarded people who were flawed we wouldn't have many people around us. Similarly, think about how much music came out of the 60s. Now think about how shitty a lot of those artists were, morally. Does that make their music less beautiful? No, but it does add an overtone, I suppose.