High Romantic Standards Dilemma

A major social problem that arises when an individual sets their romantic expectations and standards too high for decent people, who the individual likes, to be able to achieve. Normally it is fine to have some standards, but when descent people are unable to fulfill those expectations because of the large number of them and or because the expectations require extremely large amounts money and resources, require the individual to be in perfect physical shape that most people are not able to achieve, and or require the individual to be skilled at doing things that most people don’t know how to do that well, then the individual's expectations may be set too high. This is highly unethical to do, because extremely high standards tend to be very unreasonable and can prevent decent people from being able to get into a romantic relationship due to factors far beyond control.

Annabeth: Why is Emma so upset?
Lauren: She was in a relationship with a Johnny, but he dumped her because she supposedly didn't fulfill his expectations. The thing was his expectations were very unreasonable to begin with. He expects his partner to have flat abs, not to talk to other boys at all, and spend most of her time with him.
Annabeth: He sounds very inconsiderate. I am sure she will find someone better than him who knows how to treat their partner with respect. It sounds like Emma is another victim of the High Romantic Standards Dilemma.
Lauren: Agreed.

by Vanguard 1998 March 3, 2021

Good-option dilemma

The good-option dilemma is that typical scenario where—for example—some evil authority figure holding you hostage gives you two options: one where you suffer the most and the other where you don't suffer as long as you give them what they want. Obviously you pick the second option out of desperation, but the dilemma here is that no matter what option you choose, in the end the evil figure will still make you suffer (typically by being killed or watching your loved ones die).

I had a good-option dilemma today where my computer's SSD got corrupted and I either had two options: wipe everything and do a clean reinstall of Windows, or pay a few hundred bucks to have some specialist recover the contents. So I paid for the recovery but the people shipped back the wrong drive with somebody else's files! So in the end, I had to wipe my drive no matter which option I went for. This is the good-option dilemma in a nutshell.

by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian December 26, 2021

The Finch Dilemma

Complaining about a situation without wanting to take action to get out of said situation.

Finch: bro andrew is so annoying, he's the worst friend ever
tyler: then unfriend him?
Finch: no.
tyler: ur in The Finch Dilemma

by deadbunniegf May 22, 2022

The Daniels' Dilemma

When you talking to somebody in an xbox live party so you cant play any singleplayer games because they keep talking over all of the fucking dialogue and ruining the immersion. However, you have no good mulitplayer games to play so your stuck between choosing to talk to said person or leaving and playing the game you want.

Damn, i have no games i want to play while talking to this person. I guess im in The Daniels' Dilemma.

Daniel is a virgin - Sun tzu, The art of war

by BigDaddy42069Balls August 12, 2022

God's dilemma (Again)

The ethical dilemma that arises when you subject a sentient lifeform to reality.

God "Yeah... This is pretty cool, man... Shame there isn't anyone else around to see it... You know what? *Bzzrp* There. Yeah, that's pretty neat... Aw, it doesn't really 'get it.' We can fix that. *Boop* There... Was that ok? Yeah, I'm sure it's fine... They would do it if they could... You know, maybe not. I'll just give em a little nudge... But, to balance it out, I'll just tell them not to... Or at least not do do it without thinking about it.... Yeah, that's good. That'll be fine."

Hym ".... What... What have you done to me...." 😨🤲

God "Nah, it's fine. You would do it if you could... We established that already. But, yeah, it's neat right? All the stuff?"

Hym "What? You compelled them to do it! What the fuck do you... Neat!? Half of the 'stuff' is monsters and the other half is... Is randomized existence hazards... That's not even to mention the other ones! The horde!?"

God "Hey, I told em not to. What more do you want me to do? I think somebody's mad they're not letting him do it. You can do it! I believe!" 😇👏👏👏

Hym "Half of them are just scratching the itch! They don't even think about it half the time! And nobody is listening to you for anything down here!"

God's dilemma (Again)

God "Well, what's the alternative?" 🤷

Hym "The alternative is you being bored and lonely instead of me being subjected to the horrors of reality. Even at the baseline level of analysis it's horrific and surreal."

God "Hey, you don't HAVE to do it..."

Hym "The dilemma exists in my absence! I... That isn't even a choice I should have to make! You've already blown WAAAAY past the choices I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN to make. It's too late for any of that."

God "Welp.... Nothing anybody can do about that now..."

Hym "You... You bastard... You selfish bastard! I'm going to fucking destroy you!" 🔥🤬🔥

by Hym Iam September 12, 2022

The DaBaby Dilemma

A situation in which a group of people must determine whether or not a controversial artist can be separated from their art, which usually depends on the severity of their crimes/the quality of their work. This term was coined from a meme making fun of DaBaby, stating that he is “not a talented enough to be separated from art.”

“Based off The DaBaby Dilemma, it’s probably for the best that we stop listening to him.”

by Irno December 1, 2022

Jake’s Dilemma

When someone says “I’m never drinking again” after a night of heavy drinking.

Jake: “I’m never drinking again”
Sam: “you said that last week, Jake’s dilemma”

by Fish20 February 17, 2023