Or are they basically the same? Thank you for any help.
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Hobson’s Choice is canonically “Take it or leave it.”
A Catch 22 is no choice at all, there is nothing on offer, only the appearance of an offer.
The eponymous Catch 22 is that a flight surgeon must be asked to take someone off the line, on the grounds that they’re crazy. If however someone does this, it proves that they aren’t crazy, since they want to avoid combat.
Hobson’s choice was that he had a stable of many horses, giving the illusion of variety, but in fact you took the horse nearest the door or you took nothing.
tl;dr Hobson’s choice is singular, Catch 22 is naught.
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