/lit/ - Literature

>>9657472
>Something interesting, something awful, something that will shake us.

The best example I can think of is those photo albums of images of child sexual abuse that the police take from pedophiles and have to examine before storing it away in the evidence locker. However unlikely, they would be pretty goddamned horrifying to stumble upon in a library, though highly educational. It is actually lovecraftian in a way. It is the truth of the world that lives behind the thin veil of normalcy, with levels of degeneracy which are unfathomable to most people, and if you stumble upon it it can fuck up your soul, I've heard that the guys who have to look through that evidence can get fucked up for life if they can't mentally space out.

Any other crime documents which are disturbing in nature.

Cult manifestos?

I also suppose those books which are bound in human leather are kinda creepy but that doesn't necessarily mean the subject matter is awful. You could very well bind the Lorax with human skin for whatever reason.

>>9657476
>I leave here a question: Once we have that knowledge, what do you think we should do with that? I think the answear is NOTHING.

This. There really isn't any policy we could take with this which isn't completely contrary to all of our values. Also every society thus far based around the idea of inherent cognitive differences between races has been horrifying.