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Either way, they present us with a huge moral and ethical dilemma.

When we take on topics like this, it gives us that extra call to reach out to other movements and to become more inclusive and to grow, and we can finally get out of this crazy dilemma that we've been in.

And for two years, I struggled with the dilemma of waking up at 4:30 am on a Friday morning, driving to the prison, getting down, gloved and scrubbed, ready to receive the body of an executed prisoner, remove the organs and then transport these organs to the recipient hospital and then graft the gift of life to a recipient the same afternoon.

And so the next time you are faced with a dilemma, with a problem, you can say, "Let me be like Baltimore, let me look it in the face, let me tell it."

Because our acquisition of social learning would create a social and evolutionary dilemma, the resolution of which, it's fair to say, would determine not only the future course of our psychology, but the future course of the entire world.

And the reason that dilemma arose is, it turns out, that social learning is visual theft.

And so our modern world now is confronting us with a dilemma.

And it's the dilemma that this Chinese man faces, who's language is spoken by more people in the world than any other single language, and yet he is sitting at his blackboard, converting Chinese phrases into English language phrases.

Because the Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an old-age dilemma that pits the demands of security with the desire for freedom.

And this is the dilemma, this is the paradox, of beauty.

So we have this sort of shopper's dilemma right now.

And so this is the dilemma we've gotten ourselves into.

So, but the thing is, a dilemma quickly arose, and that is that I'm really bored with music, and I'm really bored with the role of the composer, and so I decided to put that idea, boredom, as the focus of my presentation to you today.

And, as a consequence, the Western view of Africa's economic dilemma is framed wrongly.

So in this dilemma about reconciling these two sets of fundamental needs, there are a few things that I've come to understand erotic couples do.

When I first realized that we had no option as scientists but to use much-vilified livestock to address climate change and desertification, I was faced with a real dilemma.

I mean, there's a lot of people in the room who are wealthy, and they've got kids, and we've got this dilemma about how you bring them up.

But now, I think, the dilemma is the cultural challenge.

Democracy is in trouble, no question about that, and it comes in part from a deep dilemma in which it is embedded.

In that dilemma lies the central problem of democracy.

So to come back to the dilemma, if the dilemma is we have old-fashioned political nation-states unable to govern the world, respond to the global challenges that we face like climate change, then maybe it's time for mayors to rule the world, for mayors and the citizens and the peoples they represent to engage in global governance.

With this, I was faced with a dilemma: Do I tell the dying that they are about to face death, or do I lie to them to comfort them?

Early in my career, I faced this dilemma by simply lying.

We got ourselves into this eastside dilemma through bad design, and so we can get out of it with good design.

But we're facing a stark dilemma where some cities are going to thrive and drive global growth and others are going to stumble and pull it backwards.

I'm going to talk briefly about two of them: the prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons.

Now, when I talked about this with Kevin Kelly, he assured me that everybody in this audience pretty much knows the details of the prisoner's dilemma, so I'm just going to go over that very, very quickly.

The prisoner's dilemma is actually a story that's overlaid on a mathematical matrix that came out of the game theory in the early years of thinking about nuclear war: two players who couldn't trust each other.

Let me just say that every unsecured transaction is a good example of a prisoner's dilemma.

If they could only agree, if they could only turn a prisoner's dilemma into a different payoff matrix called an assurance game, they could proceed.

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