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Not exactly. If I ask you "what if you robbed a bank?" you will think of robbing a bank, you actually cannot prevent yourself from thinking about robbing a bank. And yes, you just lost the Game.
What makes such a "thinking of a lot of things" immoral is not the thinking itself, but whether it is coupled with a desire.
But you think you can prevent desire from sneaking into your thinking about sinful things..? ;-)
In the interest of steel-manning the Christian view; there's a difference between thinking briefly and abstractly of the idea of something and indulging in fantasy about it.
If you spend hours imagining the feel of the gun in your hand, the sound of the money sliding smoothly into the bag, the power and control, the danger and excitement, it would be fair to say that there's a point where you could have made the choice to stop.
Yes, of course, there is a whole range of, let's say, involvement in these thoughts. But if I understand mainstream Catholicism correctly, even a brief lustful glance at the neighbor's wife is a sin. Granted, a lesser sin than constructing a whole porn movie in your head, but still a sin.
Yes, and in Yudkowskian rationality, lying to oneself is a sin.
What's wrong with having a conception of sin that includes thoughts?
Well that's why I called it steel-manning, I can't promise anything about the reasonableness of the common interpretation.