If Anaris is going to call someone out for not continuing to stick their hand in the fire after having been burned, I'm going to point out how silly that argument is.
Except that that's
not what I'm calling him out for.
I'm calling him out for hiding behind SMA for what's actually a character decision.
I don't see any problem with a character who meets Screamer and is then too scared to go meet any other Daimons.
However, I also don't see a problem with a character who meets Screamer, and then says, "Ow. Well, maybe some of the other Daimons are less inimical to my ears."
Look at it this way: I don't know how much von Genf's character knows about the Daimons, but I
do know that Alanna, who has never gone nearer to the Zuma than Mattan Dews, and never deliberately sought out information about the Zuma, knows that people have talked to them and gotten useful and interesting information.
Based on that information alone, I would think that someone attempting to follow SMA would, after encountering Screamer, think, "Hm. Well, I guess that must not be the Daimon people talked to to get information. There must be some other Daimons around who are less dangerous just to be near."
I'm not talking about using OOC info IC. I'm not talking about having a casual recklessness for one's own life. I'm just talking about very simple critical thinking skills for our characters. SMA does not, in any way, shape, or form mandate that we abandon such, and I get angry when people try to claim that it does.