Reply #27: *sigh*

[struggle4progress]

We currently have, for example, various rules governing research on human subjects; and most of us do not regard such rules as ridiculous restrictions on our desire for "knowledge," but rather as a reasonable ethical wall blocking off a spectrum of behaviors that, at the extreme, seem motivated by only sadistic curiosity and are indistinguishable from mere psychopathic brutality. I'll say again that anyone with a conscience can easily imagine kinds of knowledge that we could seek but that would degrade us if we did actually seek them