Is the place of art morality or freedom?

In a free society, artworks and ideas cannot be found innocent or guilty as only persons can be. (What is a 'normal' idea? One that has no practical consequences that anyone could find promising or threatening?). Ideas can only be more or less useful or interesting. In a totalitarian society, ideas are considered dangerous and persons are asked only to conform their behavior and thinking to existing norms concerning what should and should not be done. That is because what they are asked to do is do their job and obey authority (these go together). Morality is workerist: it always says in essence: stop thinking and just do your job.

If an author's books are worth reading, they do not become less so if the author is politically or morally in the wrong. And if they are not worth reading, they do not become more so if the author is politically or morally in the right.

A society without art would have no future because it would be so risk-averse, it would lack curiosity and novelty.