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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by quotemstr on Monday November 25, 2019 @01:41PM (#21631311)
It's one of those situations in which something that's a major positive at an individual level becomes a major negative at the group level. Any given individual would prefer to have more choice if you asked him or her, but the overall effect of all this choice is probably to distort and delay normal pair bonding. If I were God emperor of mankind, I'd just ban dating apps as a way to solve this classic collective action problem.
Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by SkyBelow on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:06AM (#21638840)
>Any given individual would prefer to have more choice if you asked him or her

I think the issue here isn't one of what does a person wants, but what they benefit from. Sometimes people are harmed by what they want. In many cases this is obvious (think any addictions), but in others it belabors the mind as we struggle to see how something that looks harmless and helpful is actually harmful.