Editing False dilemma (section)

==Examples==
===False choice===
The presentation of a ''false choice'' often reflects a deliberate attempt to eliminate several options that may occupy the middle ground on an issue. A common argument against [[noise pollution]] laws involves a false choice. It might be argued that in [[New York City]] noise should not be regulated, because if it were, a number of businesses would be required to close. This argument assumes that, for example, a bar must be shut down to prevent disturbing levels of noise emanating from it after midnight. This ignores the fact that law could require the bar to lower its noise levels, or install [[soundproofing]] structural elements to keep the noise from excessively transmitting onto others' properties.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Desantis, Nick|title=Data Shows Bars With Most Noise Complaints, But Is It Just Sound and Fury?|url=http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/noise-complaints/|access-date=31 October 2015|work=The New York Times|date=23 January 2012|archive-date=4 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804222527/http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/noise-complaints/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Black-and-white thinking===
{{See also|Splitting (psychology)|Binary opposition}}

In psychology, a phenomenon related to the false dilemma is "black-and-white thinking" or "thinking in black and white". There are people who routinely engage in black-and-white thinking, an example of which is someone who categorizes other people as all good or all bad.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=A. James Giannini |first=M. D. |date=2001-07-01 |title=Use of Fiction in Therapy |url=https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/use-fiction-therapy |journal=Psychiatric Times |language=en |volume=18 |issue=7 |pages=56–57}}</ref>