Sentence:  Did you refuse to choose between saving your son sentenced to death penalty and saving your son sentenced to slavery for life? Is that not an indication that you find no difference between them, and are frozen, as <WSD>Buridan's ass</WSD>, into an inability to choose between them, and have instead chosen to starve morally, rather than make such a choice? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The hypothetical donkey, in context of certainly dying of hunger or thirst by being unable to choose between the two equidistant options.