Why Bertrand Russell slept alone

[learnedax]

I will only date those date all those and only those who do not meet their own dating criteria. Can I date someone who shares this trait?

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

No. Setting aside the criterion under discussion, you, personally, either meet your own dating criteria or you do not.

If you do not meet the other criteria, then the identical persona also does not meet the other criteria, so you may not date him.

If you DO meet the other criteria, then so does he -- and therefore you meet HIS criteria. Hence, since you meet his criteria, HE meets his his criteria, which means that you may not date him.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me...

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. That's not what he said.

Dating those who don't meet their own dating criteria isn't the same as dating those who don't meet your own dating criteria.

If a small thin plain smart woman wants to date a large thick stunning dense man, she does not meet her criteria, but can find people who do meet her criteria.

If the "person who said this quote" happened to be large, thick, stunning, dense, and male, he could date the small thin plain smart woman, as she does not meet her own dating criteria, which means she meets the "person who said this quote's" dating criteria, and he meets her criteria.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Great. He changed the statement again. When I answered this, he finished with "Can I date someone identical to myself."

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

Arrgh. Shifting sands...