Agreed that bad things can and should happen if you proceed stupidly, ignoring warnings of danger. If you're foolish enough to get really close to and peer into the mind of a MIND FLAYER, then you deserve to get your mind eaten. And it's not like it's an instant game-over screen either; you could still use your other characters to try to kill the MF.

It's a video game. If something really bad happens that you don't like, then you can just reload and *not* do that thing.