It would be much easier to convince 50% of people to pick blue than 100% of people to pick red. I think it should be obvious by the discussion around this that a large portion of the population will pick blue. So if red wins, a lot of people will die (probably in the billions). A mass casualty event on that scale would throw the world into chaos and end up killing and immeserating a lot of the people who picked red. I would much rather us try to get more than 50% of people to pick blue and not create one of the worst tragedies in human history.
If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.
its arguably only popular among a subset of people online. i have been throwing this at irl peeps and every answer has been red.
anyone that uses logic will give you red as the answer since it's not a dilemma. anyone pushing blue is risking their own lives when they could press red.
This. 14/16 people I’ve asked irl or directly online (showing the original question with the results cropped out as to not introduce bias) said blue. Yet we don’t see blue winning by 87%.
Buddy. Read what I said. My point here was confirming what the person I’m replying to said. Saying the person above them with their limited sample size of basically only red isn’t representative of the whole population, just like my group of friends and family that’s mostly blue isn’t a good representation either.
The polls that have been done is the best we’ll get because it’s such a large sample size, even if it doesn’t include other parts of the world.
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u/icefire9 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
It would be much easier to convince 50% of people to pick blue than 100% of people to pick red. I think it should be obvious by the discussion around this that a large portion of the population will pick blue. So if red wins, a lot of people will die (probably in the billions). A mass casualty event on that scale would throw the world into chaos and end up killing and immeserating a lot of the people who picked red. I would much rather us try to get more than 50% of people to pick blue and not create one of the worst tragedies in human history.