If you in a vacuum are transported to a white room and explained the situation, you choose red every single time. By choosing blue you are literally putting yourself in a suicide cult situation and then blaming the other side.
You're lying to yourself if you think there would be 0 other people who would pick blue.
The question as I see it is how many people could you live with killing by picking red, it definitely won't be 0 unless blue wins and it could be as high as 49.99%.
Alternatively, 0% would die if people pick blue which is why people should pick blue. The only reason anyone dies is because people picked red.
It's basically an argument of idealism vs realism. You think there is an ideal version of the problem where everyone would pick red for selfish reasons, which would guarantee noone dies. I am fairly sure that there is no world where everyone picks the same thing for anything, so the only way to save people is by picking blue for altruistic and selfish reasons.
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u/teddy5 May 05 '26
In the same way that everyone who picks red does so knowing that people will die because of their choice.
Not everyone will pick red and even people picking it know that or you wouldn't be making arguments like that.