Thinking about it more, I can imagine some good reasons for this and am not too concerned by it.
For example, certain instances of negative information can probably be considered “dealbreakers”, in which case if you find it you don’t have to look for more stuff in pursuit of a “balanced picture”. And here I believe 1) Ben had good reason to suspect that he’d find such dealbreakers and 2) he did in fact find numerous dealbreakers after searching.
Thinking about it more, I can imagine some good reasons for this and am not too concerned by it.
For example, certain instances of negative information can probably be considered “dealbreakers”, in which case if you find it you don’t have to look for more stuff in pursuit of a “balanced picture”. And here I believe 1) Ben had good reason to suspect that he’d find such dealbreakers and 2) he did in fact find numerous dealbreakers after searching.