When people say they have morbid curiosity they’re kind of implying that the curiosity itself is morbid, possibly because they’re taking for granted that the thing they’re curiosity is about is actually morbid, whereas kakistocuriosity is egosyntonic curiosity about things that are stereotypically bad.
When people say they have morbid curiosity they’re kind of implying that the curiosity itself is morbid, possibly because they’re taking for granted that the thing they’re curiosity is about is actually morbid, whereas kakistocuriosity is egosyntonic curiosity about things that are stereotypically bad.