This refers to the case described above: Ben is assigned by his employer to improve an ultrasonic range$-$finding device. While talking about the$$improvement with his colleagues over a beer after work, he recognizes that a novel modification of the equipment might be applicable to military submarines, which, if successful, could be worth a lot of money to his employer. However, Ben is a pacifist, a person who opposes war of any kind, and does not want to be involved in military work. So he does not develop the idea himself or mention it to anybody else in the company. Suppose that Ben is also aware of a$$clause in his contract that explicitly requires him to disclose all potentially profitable ideas which occur to him, as an employee, to his employer.

Suppose that Ben's question is that of whether or not said idea occurred to him as an employee $($given the informal, after$-$hours setting in which he had his conversation$).$ Does his question primarily concern