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Self-Imposed Dilemmas
1. Sartre's young man is the result of a self-imposed dilemma; he projects two
obligations upon himself that cannot be reconciled. Self-imposed moral dilemmas are
the result of two actions that one feels one must take, but which cannot be reconciled
to each other.

World-Imposed Dilemmas
2. World-imposed ethical dilemmas are of the type described in the second example,
where a family member must choose which of two other members must die. He is not
instigating the decision, it is being forced upon him from the outside, and he is bound
by it to make a decision.

Prohibition Dilemmas
3. Ultimately, ethical dilemmas always require choices, and often in an ethical dilemma
refraining from action is itself a moral decision. Indeed, in some moral dilemmas one
must choose whether to disobey a particular prohibition, such as a law, when
compliance results in immoral consequences. In this case, not acting is obeying the
law, but the result is morally reprehensible.