04/06/2015

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 Nitish Kumar on the Horns of a Dilemma   

 

Nawal K Pandey

As a colorful politician and master of deceit, Lalu Prasad Yadaw has done what he is best at. He has impaled Nitish Kumar upon the horns a dilemma that offers only two possibilities, leave Lalu or surrender to him, neither of which is comfortable position and neither practically acceptable to Nitish Kumar.
For the readers of Bihartimes.com, I have copied from the web, many types of names given to dilemma. Could they describe Mr. Nitish Kumar?
Types

  • Catch-22: damned if you do, damned if you don't
  • Chicken or egg: which is first of two things, each of which presupposes the other
  • Double bind: conflicting requirements ensure that the victim will automatically be wrong.
  • Ethical dilemma: a choice between moral imperatives.
  • Extortion: the choice between paying the extortionist and suffering an unpleasant action.
  • Fairness dilemmas: when groups are faced with making decisions about how to share their resources, rewards, or payoffs.
  • Hobson's choice: a choice between something and nothing; "take it or leave it".
  • Morton's fork: choices yield equivalent, often undesirable, results.
  • Prisoner's dilemma: An inability to coordinate makes cooperation difficult and defection tempting.
  • Samaritan's dilemma: the choice between providing charity and improving another's condition, and withholding it to prevent them from becoming dependent.
  • Sophie's choice: a choice between two persons or things that will result in the death or destruction of the person or thing not chosen.
  • Zugzwang: One must move and incur harm when one would prefer to make no move (esp. in chess).
                                                                                                                           

 


 

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