Dilemma and Pressure

Dilemma

Dilemma noun - A situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices.

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Pressure and dilemma are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pressure" instead a noun "Dilemma".

Pressure noun - The burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time.

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Dilemma and pressure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dilemma" instead a noun "Pressure".

emotional	emotional dilemma	emotional pressure
similar	similar dilemma	similar pressure
legal	legal dilemma	legal pressure
serious	serious dilemma	serious pressure
Other adjectives: enormous, huge, mental, higher.

Prisoner's Dilemma: Selection pressure from being spread among countless alternate Earths and interacting with sapient but very alien nonhumans creates a hyperintelligent Human Subspecies, and the government orders their largest concentration nuked.

Source: Literature / The Long Earth
Another possibility is that it's a case of the Centipede's Dilemma; the first time the Hero used it, he didn't know it was supposed to be dangerous, so he wasn't under the same sort of pressure that might have distracted him from doing it the right way, counterintuitive as it may seem.

Source: I Thought It Was Forbidden

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