Timeline for Adjective for a decision that had no real alternative
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| Jul 14, 2015 at 18:35 | comment | added | talrnu | True, and on review it seems other answers are also oxymoronic. I guess this one just stood out so starkly due to the absoluteness of choiceless. It does have a nice fatalist/defeatist ring to it. | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 18:03 | comment | added | Jim | TL;DR, it's more of a poetic way of separating a choice (as being able to pick between feasible/desirable options) and a decision (as a more general/literal choosing between all options no matter how ridiculous or undesirable) | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 18:00 | comment | added | Jim | @talrnu I agree it's not an ideal way of saying it; however, the question asks for a way to describe a decision that had no alternative. A decision made when there was no alternative is not much of a decision. In the OP's specific case, it was to go to the one school offering the course or to not take the course at all. That's still a decision, but when not taking the course isn't an option, one has no choices. Deciding to go to the school was a decision in which there was no real choice. A choiceless decision. My phrasing is as much oxymoronic as the question, which is rather fitting.... | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 17:39 | comment | added | talrnu | I agree with this answer, but the phrase you present it in is an oxymoron (if there is no choice, then you're not making a decision). Perhaps it should be rephrased, e.g. "Your situation is choiceless."? Or is this an idiom I'm just not aware of? | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 14:44 | history | answered | Jim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |