Does everything that's interesting in life merit discussion?

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In response to this OOT thread Ask me about Adolf Hitler I made this thread On trying to understand Hitler. It got 3 responses that offered no insight and then was locked. I PM'd and IM'd the moderator who locked it and offered him the main concept of my thread which is the title of this post. He said "yes, without a doubt." but I'm not sure I agree.

To use the example of Adolf Hitler (or anything else you might like): Should we study Hitler because he is interesting, although it leads to the detriment of our minds as shown by A_C Slater's admittance (without any feeling of negativity about it) that he "understands Hitler."