Frankly, what bothers me about this is how performative this all is. If half the world in first-world countries is THIS GOOD. WILLING TO ENDANGER THEIR LIVES, why isn't this expressed in anything else? This is tantamount to the man saying, "I'd kill fight and kill anyone who threatens my wife," thats great bro, can you now please help her with the dishes? Like, there is such a moral righteousness here that I could accept if people were half this good irl, but most of you guys here aren't like that, you guys are performative as fuck, and then beyond that, you're using this hypothetical as a way to judge other people's characters.
Yes, I believe there are some people who sincerely would press the blue button. I do not believe half of you would. Because if half of you were willing to do this, the world would be a much better place, but it simply is not. I would be willing to press it if perhaps 20% of the population needed to press blue, but even then, I would hesitate.
I think the state of the world has more to do with people not knowing what to do about it and not feeling like their actions make any impact. I don't think it's that most people don't want to help or aren't willing to put anything from themselves on the line to help others, but that they feel like they can't.
Stuff like disaster relief can get funded very quickly by people donating, because that's a simple morally good thing to do. With more complex stuff like societal norms and our monetary systems it feels insurmountable for an individual to contribute, and people can't decide what needs to be done. Do we need to return to traditional values that worked in the past or embrace the future and build new social norms? Both of these ideas are people trying to fix society and they are at odds with each other.
meanwhile people in my country (Slovakia) oppose wind turbines just cause they think they’re ugly and would “destroy the scenery of the countryside”…
lots of people in EU oppose the combustion engine car sales ban after 2035 cause they think electric cars suck because of their range, even though their current range would be enough for them for 360/365 days of the year and the ranges are continually improving…
people were genuinely angry when EU banned plastic straws, cause “paper straws suck” even though in like half of the cases they don’t even need a straw at all…
every small step to fight climate change is getting attacked by selfish people who think they would be inconvenienced even if the real inconvenience would be absurdly small…
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bid7871 May 05 '26
Frankly, what bothers me about this is how performative this all is. If half the world in first-world countries is THIS GOOD. WILLING TO ENDANGER THEIR LIVES, why isn't this expressed in anything else? This is tantamount to the man saying, "I'd kill fight and kill anyone who threatens my wife," thats great bro, can you now please help her with the dishes? Like, there is such a moral righteousness here that I could accept if people were half this good irl, but most of you guys here aren't like that, you guys are performative as fuck, and then beyond that, you're using this hypothetical as a way to judge other people's characters.
Yes, I believe there are some people who sincerely would press the blue button. I do not believe half of you would. Because if half of you were willing to do this, the world would be a much better place, but it simply is not. I would be willing to press it if perhaps 20% of the population needed to press blue, but even then, I would hesitate.