Bravely done, Tal!! And stick to those guns. One piece of our cultural legacy that has been rather eroded is the quaint notion, which reqached a pinnacle in Victorian times, that there was in fact a hierarchy of values relating to the contribution to life of various kinds of acts. Degradation has become so popular, commercially, that its more insidious effects are accepted as some sort of fact of nature. While there is a lot of danger in imposing moral standards that are not comapssionate or well thought-out, a prime paradigm of which currently resides in the White House of Ignorance, that is no reason to throw every standard down the drain.

Low-life is low-life whether it is commercially successful or not.

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