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It's a good scene, and it's great that this is in a Hollywood movie, but I would not call his answer a philosophical one.

Younger women being nicer than older women is just one reason out of many, and it's a lower-ranking one compared to biological impulses. I also think he's not giving her a straight answer, but a white lie - or do you think that if the older woman would be just as agreeable as her daughter, that if he has a chance of being with the daughter, he would choose the mother over the daughter?