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Terminal Never-Married Reasoning Loop

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Diagnosis
Terminal Never-Married Reasoning Loop
Solitarius defensa intellectualis
Clinical description

Patient, 42, has developed an elaborate philosophical system proving that marriage is outdated. They present it at dinner parties. They have been presenting it at dinner parties since age 31.

Prognosis

The framework gets stronger every year.

Recommended treatment

None. A new argument emerged on a podcast.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Terminal Never-Married Reasoning Loop typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Patients diagnosed with Terminal Never-Married Reasoning Loop present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.

The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Solitarius defensa intellectualis, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

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