How much distance is needed between the story teller and the story told?

Well, it's really hard to say. Take actors, for example, they may not support moral impurities, yet they take on the roles of characters that celebrate them. Is that a bad thing? I mean, we know the actor doesn't support those morals, and yet by playing the part in the movie, they are advertizing/portraying that lifestyle as if they supported it because the character supports it. However, i would not have a problem with an actor playing the part of such a character if the point of the movie is to show how that lifestyle is not desirable, or a story of redemption. Also, Ethan brought up a good point in the discussion in that movies don't have such content unless it would be watched, meaning it's already a part of the culture, so it's not going to inject those things into an innocent society and ruin it. It's just artistically portraying the culture we live in. Now I don't really like how undesirable values are portrayed in movies as good lifestyles, even if the actor/actress doesn't agree with them. However, I can't really think of any good solutions that would keep these people employed. And besides, even if these people refused to act out such characters, there are other people who don't have a problem with such characters' morals who would play the part, thus such morals are still being promoted in society anyway. So I come to the conclusion that there should be a definite line between the story and the story teller, but there are so many complications in society today that it's really difficult to determine how thick that line should be.