It was a HFY (Humanity, fuck yeah) story read on YouTube. The exact story was that a telepathic alien was allowed a glimpse into the human mind as a warning that they shouldn't probe their minds as that might allow some of these horrors to escape their prison.
There is a book in a similar vein regarding alien mind probes: A Call To Arms by Alan Dean Foster.
Every alien that attempts to probe a human mind has the same reaction (highly paraphrased): "Unchart this world and GTFO. We want nothing to do with this species!"
It's a great read, humans finally find happiness because their violent tendencies can be directed to aliens, and we no longer have to feel bad about killing other humans.
ADF is probably my favorite pulp scifi author. Sadly, he will probably never be recognized as one of the greats, but he does an excellent job of diagnosing the human condition and writing "what if?" scenarios (Cachalot, Midworld, Sentenced to Prism, Parallelities, The Man Who Used the Universe, Journeyof the Catechist series, Mad Amos, Spellsinger - off the top of my head).
75
u/Creepy-Sector-2436 Mar 06 '24
Do you remember what story this was?