> I also do not highly prioritize gaining any more information about the situation

You acknowledge your ignorance and then refuse to remedy that.

This is an act. Perfectly acceptable and understandable. But what is more important it's deliberate and you accept responsibility for any and all consequences.

> I suppose I may differ from the average person in at least one way — that being that, if I were tricked into harming innocent parties, I would hold myself to account for allowing myself to be tricked, rather than externalizing blame to the party responsible for tricking me.

Very commendable. I wish more people held themselves to this standard. It is one of the foundations of learning after all.

> refuse to remedy

They did not say this. They said they would not highly prioritize it. Which is, of course, reasonable: given two topics, I have little metric to prioritize learning about one over the other. I have no way to know that I am prioritizing my research adequately.