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Moral Dilemma

"Moral Dilemma" or "The Hypocrite" I am a person that surrounds herself with music. At work we have a playlist of jazz, classical, new age, classical crossover, which plays random tracks of music throughout the day. In my car, I listen to playlists that I have made-songs from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 200s, 2010s, The Beatles, Phil Collins, The Monkees, James Taylor, Billy Joel, George Michael, and more. Two weeks ago, while driving to work, I had my 1980s songs playlist playing in my car. All of a sudden, the song “Thriller”, by Michael Jackson, came on the playlist. “Ugh, I am such a hypocrite!” I thought to myself. * Michael Jackson has been under scrutiny for years now, for his alleged sexual assault of minors. When “Leaving Neverland” aired, a documentary about two of Jackson's alleged victims, radio stations around the world began to pull his music from their catalog. There was a similar reaction after “Surviv