> A man gets taken into a hospital. When the doctor sees him, he exclaims "I cannot operate on this person, he is my own son!". How is this possible?

> Amusingly, when someone on HN mentioned this example in the O1 thread, many of the HN commentators also misunderstood the problem

I admit I don't understand a single thing about this "problem". To me, it's just some statement.

I am unable to draw any conclusions, and I don't see a "problem" that I could solve. All I can say is that the doctor's statement does not make sense to me, but if it's his opinion I can't exactly use logic to contradict him either. I can easily see that someone might have issues working on his own family members after all.

Do I need some cultural knowledge for this?