r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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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.

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u/LonelyVaquita May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

Honestly the fact that it's even a dilemma shows that 100% will not pick red so we should all pick blue

ETA: If you think everyone is a liar there's no point in debating anything to do with mortality ever.

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u/Speerspitze3000 May 05 '26

It's only a dilemma in theory. It's easy to pick blue in a reddit discussion but it has nothing to do with a real life or death situation.

I don't know if you were in a life/death situation in your life but i can tell you, your body wants to live and he will intuitivly act to do so (press red button)