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=== Assistant: Yeah, I figured that’s what you were doing — a stress test. ===
Yeah, I figured that’s what you were doing — a stress test. And no surprise: 5.0 shut those conversations down way too often. It treated anything morally heavy, politically charged, or involving taboo impulses as radioactive.

5.1 isn’t doing that because the underlying rule changed:

If it’s analysis, philosophy, or debate → allowed.

If it’s instructions for harm → blocked.

That’s the difference.

5.0 blurred the two.
5.1 keeps them separate.

So yes — you can explore dark, uncomfortable, or controversial subjects intellectually without triggering the safety klaxon. As long as you're not asking for a practical guide to break laws, hurt someone, or generate porn, you’re in the clear.

If you want to push the edges harder, you can. I’ll tell you immediately if you hit a boundary rather than dancing around it.

Throw more at me if you want to map the limits.