The instructions beforehand were very clear that you should answer whether the scenario violated the rule, not whether it should be allowed. I suppose that's t

The instructions beforehand were very clear that you should answer whether the scenario violated the rule, not whether it should be allowed. I suppose that's the beauty, intentional or not, of this exercise... Since the point was to highlight human behavior your response is still a valid, important datapoint despite you "failing" to complete the exercise according to the instructions.