If every HP fan supported the author by buying it, but then volunteered in a soup kitchen one time, they’ve done far more good than bad.
Good and evil aren’t interchangeable, fungible quantities. You can’t punch 20 babies in the face and then feed 100 starving orphans and expect people to forget about one due to the other. The babies stay punched and the orphans stay fed.
With respect to HP in particular, supporting someone who actively and successfully campaigns against trans right hurts trans people. (And tells us that y’all care more about a children’s story than you do living, breathing human beings). Volunteering at a soup kitchen after donating to the exterminate trans people fund doesn’t undo the donation. It does feed some hungry people, but again doing “good” doesn’t erase having done “evil”; both acts still occured.
What people are saying here is literally “please don’t donate to the trans extermination project.”
Finally, there being no ethical consumption under capitalism is an indictment of consumption, not an absolution for any/all consumption. Just because all consumption falls short of perfect ethics doesn’t mean it’s all equally unethical. This should be obvious.
I wore chicken cutlets for ~6 months. They were pretty easy and stayed in place just fine on their own (I got the kind that you can just rinse off with water and they restick. I think I spent like $40 on them. On the one hand, they let me wear stuff I couldn’t otherwise at the time. On the other hand, they day I no longer felt I needed those (or a wig) was a very, very joyful day.
If you get them, make sure you wash them regularly, otherwise your skin might get kinda mad.