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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly. Society should never conflate knowledge driven by curiosity and knowledge as an excuse for sadism.

There's a difference between experimenting by following rules, and then observing the results vs giving in to base forbidden desires just to see what happens or trying to bend reality to confirm one's bias - I mean, just look at how people tried to justify until decades ago a black person's 'inferiority' and their discrimination by coming up with all sorts of anatomical observations. That's the danger.