> "Have you ever considered stealing from your employer?" to which I would cheerfully answer "Yes". I absolutely do not mean this as an insult and I a honestly

> "Have you ever considered stealing from your employer?" to which I would cheerfully answer "Yes". I absolutely do not mean this as an insult and I a honestly curious, but could you be chance be on the autism spectrum? I know I am, but not so much that I don't know that you must lie to that question. Though I did have to learn the hard way that you should not tell romantic partners that you wish your loud neighbors would die, because it would objectively improve your life. Or like when we learned about illegal slash-and-burn agriculture destroying the rain forests and hurting the global climate and I asked my teacher why the government wouldn't just shoot the farmers, to his intense horror and revulsion. > but I genuinely don't understand people who have "never considered" it - how do you block & limit your mind? I fully agree and think the same way, but neurotypical people generally scare away from thought experiments that make them uncomfortable because of their, as you said, mental fences.