This question (see pic) is from the site OkCupid.
Does it bother anyone else? (If you don't see why it bothers me, see the comments.)
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's a near-perfect example of the false dilemma/choice fallacy type. So many of OkCupid's match questions have these kinds of deductive logic errors. Clearly they were written by flawed humans. 
Shawno1972
Level 7
Oct 17, 2019
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Well that's easy, Yes and No, I don't practice a religion and you're covered. No offense or over thinking required.
1of5
Level 8
Oct 15, 2019
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That's not an option though. I could only pick one for myself.
I get what you’re saying, but it would not bother me. I would look at it the same as the “white car dilemma.”
If you have to fill out a form that asks what color your car is, but you have a white car and you know white isn’t a color... you could
A. Freeze up. or
B. Say white and get on down the road.
Atheism is not a religion, but it’s what goes in that space.
skado
Level 9
Oct 15, 2019
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Thanks for responding, but that's not my objection at all.
In fact, I first selected, "Yes", because it IS important that my partner is not religious, like me.
But then, I thought maybe I was supposed to select, "No, I don't practice a religion", because I'm not religious. But that seems wrong, because yes, my partner's religious status is important to me.
No option here seems remotely correct to me.
@fundy-apostate
Yeah, like multiple choice questions often do, they didn’t cover all the possibilities well.
Or a question asking,
Is it important to you that your partner is racist in the same way as you?
- Yes
- No, I don't mind if we're racist in different ways
- It depends on what ways they're racist
- No, I'm not racist, so I don't care in what ways my partner is racist
fundy-apostate
Level 4
Oct 15, 2019
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Imagine a question asking,
Is it important to you that your partner shoots up the same drugs as you?
- Yes
- No, I don't mind if we shoot up different drugs
- It depends on what drugs they do
- No, I don't care what drugs they shoot up because I don't do drugs
fundy-apostate
Level 4
Oct 15, 2019
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There are ones similar to that.
You should sign up.
More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
1of5:
@moosepucky this raises an importaint question: just how much fun is a barrel of monkeys, really. The monkeys I've seen (besides the tv show The Monkeys) are a bunch of critters I'd rather not spend much time with.
1of5:
@moosepucky yes, I played that game. Once. Cocaine addiction is funner, in my experience.
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