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The key linguistic point is that Hobson's blocks Hobbesian here. Even if there is a valid and coherent reason for Anderson to see his choice as a "Hobbesian choice", he can't use that phrase without taking literate readers aback, and leading some of them to make fun of him.
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You can read all about the Great Hobbesian Choice Brouhaha in this 2/19/2005 post, but here's a quick summary. Back in April of 2003, Peter Wood at the National Review trashed John Payton, who argued for the University of Michigan in Gratz v. Bollinger, for using the phrase "Hobbesian choice".
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In strictly political terms, Obama is presented with a Hobbesian choice: The Left of his party is already disillusioned by some of the actions the president has taken: invoking the State Secrets Doctrine, arguing that prisoners at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have no rights, refusing to comply with court...
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So presumably Mr. Payton didn't mean "Hobson's choice." A "Hobbesian choice" must be something else. A choice like that made by Thomas Hobbes, the English political theorist best known for his justification of monarchy, The Leviathan?
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And thanks to you, I now know I wasn’t even original in my conflation, just deliberate — I hadn’t known that Hobson’s Choice and Hobbesian Choice are routinely confused.
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On occasion, speakers and writers use the phrase "Hobbesian choice" instead of "Hobson's choice". ... They confuse the philosopher Thomas Hobbes with the relatively obscure Thomas Hobson.[1] [2] [3] [4] Notwithstanding that confused usage, the phrase, "Hobbesian choice" is historically incorrect.[5] [6] [7] [8]
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MR. PAYTON: I think that decision which would say that we have to choose, would be a Hobbesian choice here. Our premiere institutions of higher education, I'd say, are part of our crown jewels. We have great educational institutions in this country.
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After four stifling days on the plane, Raab was ordered off. His mother's pleas were useless. "We looked at each other, and we condensed the hours of being together that we deserved to have throughout He was shaking so hard he nearly fell from the wooden ladder propped at the plane's exit. ... They huddled on the floor.
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So, no to McCain and that leaves only Obama as a realistic choice. He got my vote, I admire what he has done, limited though it may be, and I will hope for the best. But, there might be something good come of our being forced continually into Hobbesian choics if we are bright enough to seek it.
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