Buridan's ass

Etymology
After the fourteenth-century French philosopher, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirises.

Proper noun

 * 1) The hypothetical donkey who is placed precisely midway between two sources of food and/or water.
 * 2) The hypothetical donkey, in context of certainly dying of hunger or thirst by being unable to choose between the two equidistant options.
 * 3) The hypothetical donkey, as a typical character of a number of philosophical paradoxes involving equally valuable incentives to action, and the nature of the possible choices and outcomes.
 * 1) The hypothetical donkey, as a typical character of a number of philosophical paradoxes involving equally valuable incentives to action, and the nature of the possible choices and outcomes.
 * 1) The hypothetical donkey, as a typical character of a number of philosophical paradoxes involving equally valuable incentives to action, and the nature of the possible choices and outcomes.
 * 1) The hypothetical donkey, as a typical character of a number of philosophical paradoxes involving equally valuable incentives to action, and the nature of the possible choices and outcomes.
 * 1) The hypothetical donkey, as a typical character of a number of philosophical paradoxes involving equally valuable incentives to action, and the nature of the possible choices and outcomes.

Noun

 * 1)  A person or organization who doesn't make a choice.
 * 2)  Collectively, people who don't make a choice.
 * 1)  Collectively, people who don't make a choice.