I don’t know the content of the basilisk (I’ve heard that it’s not a useful thing to know, in addition to being potentially stress inducing, so I do not want to want to know it,) so I’m not in much of a position to critique its similarity to knowledge of events like the Haiti earthquake. But given that we don’t have the capacity to shelter anyone from the knowledge of tragedy and human fragility, or eternal torment such as that proposed by religious traditions, failing to censor such concepts is not a sign of inconsistency.
I don’t know the content of the basilisk (I’ve heard that it’s not a useful thing to know, in addition to being potentially stress inducing, so I do not want to want to know it,) so I’m not in much of a position to critique its similarity to knowledge of events like the Haiti earthquake. But given that we don’t have the capacity to shelter anyone from the knowledge of tragedy and human fragility, or eternal torment such as that proposed by religious traditions, failing to censor such concepts is not a sign of inconsistency.