Sentence:  The ass's commitment to a seeming demand or rationality has damaged his health. Maybe we — and <WSD>Buridan's ass</WSD> — should often resist requiring a discriminating reason for rational action. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The hypothetical donkey, as a typical character of a number of philosophical paradoxes involving equally valuable incentives to action, and the nature of the possible choices and outcomes.