Or are they basically the same? Thank you for any help.
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Catch 22, two options can not in fact exist together. One will cancel out the other.
Hobson’s choice, only one “option” makes any sense or woulld ever be chosen by anyone. So it’s a fake choice, you just have to do the one viable thing.
Catch 22 was (paraphrasing) “The only way to get out of going on a bomber mission is to be crazy. You have to be crazy to want to go on a bombing mission.” If you say you don’t want to go on a mission, well, that’s just sanity talking. You gotta go. The crazy ones never try to get out of it. (Of course, this was an absurdly limited interpretation of “crazy”.)
Hobson’s choice is your money or your life. The only catch to this example being the people that think they can fight the mugger and avoid both.
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