No-win situation
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A no-win situation, also called a "lose-lose" situation, is one where a person has choices, but no choice leads to a net gain. For example, if an executioner offers the condemned the choice of dying by being hanged, shot, or poisoned, since all choices lead to death, the condemned is in a no-win situation. This bleak situation gives the chooser little room: whatever choice is made, the person making it will lose their life.
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See also
- Catch-22 (logic)
- Cornelian dilemma
- Double bind
- Kobayashi Maru
- Morton's fork
- Pyrrhic victory
- Winner's curse
- Win-win game
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