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TINA: There is no alternative. Whenever somebody, for not adequately analyzed reasons, makes the claim that his or her plan has no alternatives it could possibly be the case that the in-tuition "You have no choice" is involved.

Possible interpretations:

• Complement: There may be alternatives you need to explore.
• "You have no choice" is also the perception of animals in human captivity or in cages.
• A further explanation would be that a failure to recognize ethical imperatives may lead to lack of alternatives in other cases, where you might prefer to have an alternative (Mutation).

Hypothesis:

The intuition to build cages could sometimes be the question "Can you do that?" and as long as you lack the ethics to reject it that could (possibly) appear to justify the intuition there is no alternative by precedent, even when it's meaning is "There are alternatives you might want to explore". ^[1]

^[1] The intend of the speaker may be benevolent but the result would be adversarial nonetheless, as long as unethical ^[2] precedent permits this.

^[2] The judgement what is ethical or unethical would be left as an exercise to the listener, the judgement applied would merely be what precedents justify what action, not if that is ethical to do or not, see precedent.

[edit] See also

• Pattern: TINA
• Pattern: Events happen in pairs

• TINA (Wikipedia)

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