Others can control what we think, but we can’t control it ourselves.
If you treat people poorly, they will think poorly of you. If you treat them well, they will think well of you.
There is a saying:
Why did he do what she said and not what I said?
He likes her better than you.
Efforts to police thinking are obviously just ways to trick people. All thinking is ok. It’s doing that can get people in trouble.
Some doing is bad, some doing is good, some doing doesn’t matter.