"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Nobody's deifying. Humans are complicated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Is it not stupid that someone's sins should stain every single unrelated thing they've ever done? What kind of moral fascism is it where the person must be good and holy in order to not invalidate every single thing someone has made?

Same thing could be said about ReiserFS... a technical achievement completely disregarded because the creator murdered his wife.

The idea that a creation or an idea is tainted by its creators sins has no basis in physical reality and exists solely in the minds of humans.

Why the hyperbole? No one is deifying him. It's an encyclopedia article about an influential music technique he developed, not a moral examination or a defence of his crimes.

If nothing else, it’s a useful reminder that people can do both bad things and good things, and that it’s hard to reduce someone’s life to a simple summary judgement.

TIL! Thanks for cluing me in to that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lana_Clarkson