Thinking Experiments

I think this desire to be purely rational all the time in every decision that we make might actually be a diservice, because it would sort of take people like elon and why would i try to re se a rocket has never been done before? We need some sort of emotional component to our decision making. It's just a matter of determining when it's serving us and when it's hurting us. So, thought experiments. How do you think about thought experiments? Thought the phrase now for me, is fairly charged, because i am a the victim of having used thought experiments in on controversial topics that did not get received as like they were thought experiments,. which ones.