Is the term "morbid curiosity" generally negative or positive? [closed]

Solution 1:

mor·bid (môr′bĭd) adj.

1. Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.
2. a. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased: morbid changes in tissues.
   b. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: a morbid fear of heights. [Latin morbidus, diseased, from morbus, disease; see mer- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=morbid

Why assume, as suggested in comments, that morbid means something less than its usual meaning in the phrase morbid curiosity?

Try reading some of the snippets https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=morbid+curiosity&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmorbid%20curiosity%3B%2Cc0 here to get a better idea of how the phrase is used.