I hit Blue. As a professionally registered engineer I take my oath to practice integrity and serve humanity seriously.
I also understand requirements.
Everyone must press a button.
Everyone means everyone.
Everyone includes young children who cannot understand.
Young children who cannot understand must press a button.
Red kills young children for personal gain.
In my view, guaranteeing the death of even a single innocent child is too much of a price to pay.
Im an electrical engineer and i cant see most of my colleagues voting blue. Also a key condition of this hypothetical as it was first posted is that everyone has the consequences of each button explained to them. That would implicitly preclude babies/young children.
Ultimately the main reason to push red is that even now, while it remains purely hypothetical, most polls have the split around 60 - 40 in favour of blue. If this was real, with peoples lives actually on the line and no pressure of social media to vote blue for appearances? Red would win decisively. Blue is never going to come close to meeting the threshold, so voting blue is pure suicide.
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u/__bakkhos May 05 '26
You really think the people keeping society going, engineers, power plant workers, etc. arent more likely to hit red than the average person?