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The personal lives of the people involved really don't affect my interest in seeing their product.
Are you wrong to feel that way? No. Though I don't feel the same.
Roman Polanski did things he shouldn't have and is a horrible person who has evaded taking responsibility for decades and still (sometimes) makes good movies.
David Lynch is a fervent proponent of one of the silliest new age psychobabble phenomenons to ever gain traction (TM) and still (sometimes) makes good movies.
John Ford was a homophobe and made many great movies.
Cecil B. DeMille made one of the great racist movies in history and still made many great movies.
O.J. Simpson killed his wife without impacting my interest in watching The Towering Inferno.
Walt Disney was a jerk and testified before HUAC and I still enjoy his theme park and many of his movies.
Half of Hollywood (hyperbole) has engaged in what I consider one of the most personally abhorrent actions (non-consensual adultery) and I still watch a few hundred movies every year.
Their personal lives may inform my interpretation of their art but it doesn't impact my interest in seeing it. However, if you feel strongly that what Gibson did means you can't give him any money then I say stand by the courage of your convictions and don't see the movie. "Stealing" the movie isn't right just because you don't like him.
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