Veronika's Journal: A riddle

Two firemen were sent on a mission to put out a fire in the forest. After they put out the fire, one of the firemen got his face really dirty but the other one did not. Then, they came to a stream. Question: who will wash his face?

The answer is the one with clean face because he looked at the dirty face fireman and he thought his face was dirty too. The dirty face fireman, on the contrary, wouldn't wash his face. Same logic applies: he looked at the clean face fireman and thought his face was clean. Have you got the answer right?

Sure?

[dtfinch]

Each observing the other's seemingly illogical decision, one of them might ask the other "why did/didn't you wash your face?"

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[Veronika]

This riddle is actually a metaphor of a situation. If you get the metaphor, then you would know that under that situation, there is little chance that they will ask each other "why did/didn't you wash your face?".

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[Veronika]

Haha.. Ok... Like I told the previous fella, the riddle is a metaphor of a situation. In that situation, very little chance that clean face fireman would ask the dirty face fireman why he didn't wash his face.

Anyway, let's put the metaphor aside. If you factor in all the possibility of things that could happen, all the conversation they may have, I suppose both of them would end up having a bath in the stream. (Btw, they were still in the forest, at the stream, no toilet, no mirror.) What I was asking was,