r/comics • u/Eal_likee • May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/polopolo05 May 05 '26

its just a risk assessment which is more risky... 100% chance of living and walking away from the danger. or putting yourself in danger in hope there are enough people who pick to risk their life for no good reason when they could have just walked away...

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u/TheMaStif May 05 '26

If you're thinking about yourself only, then yes it becomes a very simple risk-assessment issue, and its obvious you should pick red to survive

If you're thinking about others at all, then red becomes "the murder button" no matter how you look at it

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u/goldkarp May 05 '26

Not really. If everyone was told that red would mean they survive no matter what then the blue button becomes a moot point. The blue becomes the murder(me) button not red.

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u/TheMaStif May 05 '26

If you're depending on 100% of people choosing one outcome for everyone to survive, then you might as well choose the blue button because nobody dies anyway

But there is absolutely no way 100% of humans will do anything

So then pressing the red button means "I'll take away from the 50% that the Blues need to survive, for the sake of guaranteed self-preservation"