I see this judging Magic: the Gathering a lot. Players will sit there staring at their hand, mulling over various options, all of them bad. And they hesitate to make a play because once they make a play, bad stuff happens. They're constantly trying to convince themselves there's another "good" option if they just stare at their cards long enough.
Nope. All your choices are bad. Make a play.
I think this is a great point generally. People are frequently forced into making one of a number of bad choices. Human circumstance almost always gives us that problem. It is in those situations where “trying to be strategic” really holds us up. Sometimes, things suck in the short run and have no long term value either. I think acknowledging this is why some people can make snap judgements in that situation while others sit in denial.
Nope.
Of course if you see A coming originally and don't want to flip again, then we know that you're OK with A.
But if you do want to flip again, then you just know that you don't prefer A -- you can't deduce from that that you want B.
You can still:
(a) prefer B (b) dislike both