@daringfireball “…you’re no longer judging the art. You’re making a choice not to form your opinion based on the work itself, but rather on something else.”

If I read something, like it, and then find out later it was plagiarized and think less of it as a work, that’s pretty valid and I’m judging the work and not the writer, right?

I think that’s a better analogy than the bizarre Woody Allen one you jumped to. We’re never not talking about the work when dissecting how it was made.