The odd role — to sit by his former client while prohibited from actually representing him, and to watch him purposefully inch closer to a death sentence — has posed an ethical dilemma for Colonel Poppe, 50, a lawyer from small-town Ohio with more than 30 years of military service who has been working on Major Hasan's case since May 2010.
Take this sentence: "It was a difficult dilemma, especially at 8 a.m. in the morning".
Both may end up confessing as a result of the dilemma, and taking the short sentence rather than walking away.Role-playing experiments where the game is repeated have tested various strategies.
This article was amended on 5 March to include the following sentence: "Cases such as this raise an interesting dilemma for the growing number of investors pledging to take environmental, social and governance issues into account and invest more sustainably".
In short, the deflationist is faced with a dilemma: take deflationism to be a theory of sentences and it is false; take it to be a theory of propositions, on the other hand, and it is trivial.
If in law the verdicts so found, although proper determinations of fact, are not all enforceable, the dilemma is adequately resolved by requiring the trial judge to forego sentencing on the unenforceable verdicts.
Hence, the "prisoner's dilemma"; do you cooperate and altogether as a team receive the original sentence, or do you take an easier way out, leaving your colleagues to suffer?
Regarding the second question, Hempel 1958 deflates what he calls "the theoretician's dilemma"—i.e., the putative reduction without remainder of theoretical concepts and sentences to observational concepts and sentences.
Mathematicians call this situation the "prisoner's dilemma," because it resembles the plight of guilty prisoners who know they will get reduced sentences if they inform on each other, but also risk being tattled on themselves.
But the latest harsh sentences have aroused Australians' indignation.For the conservative coalition government of John Howard, the Australians in Bali's prisons pose a political and diplomatic dilemma.
