[CLOSED]Solve The Paradox

[Jason Tandro]

Okay, to win this game you must do two things:

1. Explain why the situation is a paradox.

2. Come up with a "creative" solution to the paradox (and by creative, I mean logic-be-damned).

Best answer merits a whopping 300 Gems.


The paradox:

There is a village where a barber shaves all and only those who do not shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?

[Mantaray]

no one shaves the barber!
...or the villagers do

[Freedan]

No one shaves the barber, because the barber is a woman.

Though that would mean seriously hairy legs. Gross.

Edit: Oh, that's a paradox because if the barber only shaves those who don't shave themselves, then they can't be shaved (assuming they're the only one in town that does the shaving). If they shave themselves, they've broken the rule, and can't self-shave. If they don't self-shave, then they're supposed to self-shave.

[Jason Tandro]

Freedan understands the paradox. I'll let a few more people answer though, but you at least get partial credit if you don't win. (though the barber being a woman is a good answer)

[EverPhoenix]

i get the paradox.

the barber has to shave everyone in the village (him/herself included) yet isnt allowed to shave him/herself. so he has to shave himself, without shaving himself.

the answer? the barber is a robot. therefore, the 'who' does not apply to him, and he can still shave everyONE in the village, without shaving anyone who doesnt shave themselves. being a robot, he doesnt count towards the population.

insert hair machine joke here

[tay120n64]

Well, if the barber shaves everyone, then no one shaves themselves, for were they to shave themselves, the barber would not shave them, being the supreme douche that he is, which begs the inevitable question that were the barber to attempt to shave himself, would he no longer shave himself?

Fortunately, the barber does not have to worry about this, not because he is a woman, rather, because he is the barber, and being the barber means that you shave others who are incapable of shaving themselves. The masses of the village come to the barber, and only to the barber, for there is none other in town truly capable of shaving the villagers and granting them a more pure and beautiful life. All the villagers need to do is accept the barber as their one and only course of civilized living. Thus, the answer as to who shaves the barber should be obvious.

No one does, because the barber is Jesus.

And as we all know Jesus has a beard.

It's where the forest creatures live.

(Shave us from evil, Jesus!)

[Jason Tandro]

Okay, I think you both win.

When the choice is between Robot or Jesus, you have to choose Robot Jesus.