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.