Aaaaand ... I just wrote quite a bit about “why” they may have been curious about the foundations of outrage rather than their conclusions.
“Why”, of course, helps to define conclusions. It’s why Lewis wrote that one can often get the science that they want.
My answer reveals a lot about me. Hardly a mystery what it is since I outright state that I accept the idea of the Tao, as Lewis write of it, as valid, not just humane but something vital to being Man at all.
And it is not a Christian or a Jewish thing either, for all Mankind is heirs of the consequences of eating that fruit. And make no mistake about it: it was the knowledge of good and evil, not just evil. The problem with Mankind is not that we know about good and evil but that, knowing it, we are not in or basic nature holy beings.
For my own part, trying to imagine why I would pose such an issue, curiously I’ve done so not because I’m doing anything like looking for a basis for outrage or and explanation of it, but because of those self same fanfics.....
Hey, anything that could expand our minds in a biblical manner is good, and I know you’ve had some pretty original ideas in that vein.
The knowing good and evil illusion, to me, is a finitude problem. God’s original plan was to lead mankind along, showing it what was good and what was evil at each step. And because that would be infallible, man would never get into trouble.
To believe we can contain that information within ourselves is to ask to run into all manner of trouble. Eventually it will force us, if we are wise, back to God. Just as the book of Ecclesiastes says.
I’ve felt a number of demonic illusions and they all have the property of “Feel good, do bad.” Only increasing faith in God can combat that problem.
And, so whence the Tao?
Maybe the Tao is analogous to the limp-home mode of computer controlled automobiles. It has to be good enough to prevent instant perishing, but it can’t ever be as good as being “constantly on line with God.”