I feel like I understand what they said, but maybe I’m not wording my question right.
Imagine that I’m asking whether you like blue more or green more. I’m not asking you what your favorite color is, or what color you’d paint your car, but generally which one of those two colors you tend to see yourself liking more.
I think you hit the nail on the head. It’s being made about hypothetical implications, instead of being taken at face value…
Here’s another one: Are you more of a silly person or a serious person?
There are implications to both, and few would self identify as strictly one or the other, but I can easily see which side I tend to align with without labeling myself a “Serious/Silly Person”
It’s really blowing my mind that this concept isn’t more intuitive. (I’ve had this conversation with a family member who has a view very similar to yours)