Five students - Jaen, Chris, Juan, Jimmy, and Ray?move into a house together and discover they share the odd habit of drinking milk with ice in it every night before bed. They own several ice trays and make a pact to always refill the trays when they are emptied so that the supply of ice will never run out. But the five often do not have the time or energy to refill the trays, and after a few weeks, it becomes quite common for them to meet in the kitchen and discover that they have no ice. This would best be characterized as what type of dilemma?

Resource dilemma refers to the dilemmatic situation in which the individual finds himself to be stuck in the position where he has to take a certain decision between self-interest and the availability of the resource. This condition is also characterized by the dilemma of the interest served to the community as a whole and the process of sharing resources sustainably. This is the situation when the individual is hanged between self-consumption and community welfare at the same time. In the given situation, the five friends are stuck into the resource dilemma situation. They are stuck into the situation where the ice cubs are not as sufficient for each of them at the time when they all want to have it. This is the situation where they have to decide among the resource and the part of sharing it.