Another distinction is between self-imposed moral dilemmas and dilemmas imposed on an agent by the world, as it were.
Dilemmas imposed on the agent by the world, by contrast, do not arise because of the agent's wrongdoing.
But there is a possibility that this imposes a dilemma on them, as there is only the choice between risks that cannot be quantified [ 18].
Other opponents deny that even self-imposed dilemmas are possible.
Some of these opponents hold that self-imposed dilemmas are possible, but that their existence does not point to any deep flaws in moral theory (Donagan 1977, Chapter 5).
Traditionally, Morton has been known as the inventor of "Morton's Fork," a sophistical dilemma imposed on both rich and poor by Henry's tax commissioners in order to extort funds for the crown.
The heart of "After the Life" is the agonizing dilemma imposed on Pascal by the drug dealer, who tries to blackmail Pascal into killing le Roux by cutting off Agnès's supply of morphine.
Unfortunately this was the bright side of the story; on the other hand, phage specificity imposed a complicated dilemma, which is the difficulty of finding sufficient phage strains which could cover all or most of bacterial host strains.
It will not surprise the euro-sceptics among you that the European Union, in its own parallel self-driving car programme, is trying to solve this dilemma through a system of bureaucratically imposed obedience.
The restrictions imposed on health workers returning from Africa exposes a dilemma for authorities who are keen for American experts to help staunch the disease in Africa but mindful of public concerns at home.
