Clement Being wrong is very often being dead. If you don't think before you act, you can kill people. If the reasons are strong enough, a person can bring himself to do anything, no matter how unpleasant. It's not impossible, it's just highly improbable. Curiosity is a normal and healthy human emotion.
Curiosity is a painful disease.
Don't let thinking interfere with your hangups. Arguments are a waste of time unless they're fun. Two hundred parsecs mean little in the size of the galaxy. The art of story telling must be nearly as old as humanity itself. Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.