Full Idea
I do not see how …we can know how to interpret the idea of a situation in which someone will necessarily be wrong whatever he does.
Gist of Idea
I can't understand how someone can be necessarily wrong whatever he does
Source
Philippa Foot (Moral Dilemmas Revisited [1995], p.188)
Book Reference
Foot,Philippa: 'Moral Dilemmas' [OUP 2002], p.188
A Reaction
Seems right. If you think of hideous dilemmas (frequent in wartime), there must always be a right thing to do (or two equally right things to do), even if the outcome is fairly hideous. Just distinguish the right from the good.