>Why are unrealistic preferences a problem for anyone but the person with the unrealistic preferences? Did you read my 2nd paragraph? >The only way someone el

>Why are unrealistic preferences a problem for anyone but the person with the unrealistic preferences? Did you read my 2nd paragraph? >The only way someone else’s standards become a problem for you For me personally, that's right. For society as a whole, suppose that everyone suddenly decided they would only date model-beautiful people. Pretty soon, everyone is terminally single, no one forms families or has children, and society dies out within a couple of generations (unless a different way of raising children is found, such as keeping them all in government-run institutions, but this still entails a radical change to society).