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at some point I decided that the idea of a guilty pleasure was bad: what's the point of feeling bad about your media consumption? but I have just decided that it's a good concept again, because sometimes you enjoy things that are bad not for reasons of taste, but for ethicsPermalink Look on archive.org
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(and it's good to acknowledge that sometimes you do like and willing seek out things which are immoral. much better than tying yourself up trying to prove the enjoyable thing actually IS totally fine and ethical, thank you very much)Permalink Look on archive.org
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so, for example: Cats is a guilty pleasure, not because it is a OTT trainwreck of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but because it clearly involved some terrible crunch for the VFX artistsLook on archive.org
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generally it is good to be clear whether you disapprove of things for reasons of taste or of ethicsPermalink Look on archive.org
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see also: Trump eating well done steak with ketchupPermalink Look on archive.org