In philosophy there is a paradox called Buridan's Ass named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. In this paradox there is an ass placed between two perfect stacks of hay. The ass is paralyzed without a way to choose one stack over the other and starves to death. This is obviously an extreme case but this happened in real life every day. People find themselves stuck between to nearly equal choices and end up paralyzed by the lack of decision.