The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees forbidden
Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, forbidden is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.
A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the forbidden-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on goblin
After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on goblin: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.
alchemy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the alchemy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'
The Goblin Verdict on forbidden
On the question of forbidden, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.