 As both Keller and Stroud point out, these are not simply descriptions of typical friendship behavior; rather, they seem to be generally accepted as requirements of friendship. If so – and if it really is true that epistemic partiality makes us less likely to form true beliefs (but see Jollimore 2011 for a challenge to this claim) – then we seem to face a difficult choice: we must either accept that forming true beliefs is not the only goal with respect to which epistemic standards should be evaluated, or else accept that the requirements of friendship and other forms of love can conflict with the requirements of epistemic rationality: being an ideal epistemic agent, that is, is not always compatible with being an ideal friend.