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Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will.


It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the ass will always go to whichever is closer, it will die of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision to choose one over the other.[1] The paradox is named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirises.
Applied to today, the result is a public and a nation caught between 2 such odious choices as to be destroyed.

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