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Obvious choice.
Self evident choice.
Unequivocal choice
Moral no-brainer?
Hoping for a better term than this
How about a moral shoe-in? :)
Moral/ethical imperative.
That describes whichever of the 2 options is morally correct more than the situation in which there is a clear correct option, doesn't it?
Ethical certainty?
certainty
I like this one the best. A dilemma is not necessarily that there's no good options, but rather the decision is difficult. Think of the time traveler killing Hitler problem: if you kill Hitler too early, he isn't globally hated anymore when time plays out, and you're just a murderer. Too late, and you've allowed so many people to die just to justify that he deserves to die... Where's the 'right time?' There's a giant spectra of time that you can make as a justification of when to kill Hitler.
To quote myself, there’s no “ethical certainty” when (hypothetically) travelling back in time. You can never know the untold devastation you will introduce or avoid by making major or even minor changes.
I love time travel stories but most of them really skip over some of the more complex issues.
Which reminds me of a fairly low budget movie that was actually not bad, Time Trap. Check it out if you can find it.
Maybe just an ethical lemma.
This is right. Di-lemma literally means two-options.
Lemma means one option.
This doesn't work as a more academic term but "slam dunk" is what came to mind 😂
Straightforward
The right thing.
Do you have an example?
Don't want to start an applied ethics debate so that's why I used the modified trolley problem example
I always thought there should be an opposite word for dilemma, since dealing with a choice between two equally positive outcomes happens often in life.
A vevalemma. Vevaios is Greek for certain.
A unilemma? Monolemma?
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