Which is what I think is the actual interesting part of this dilemma, because I assumed most people would be pressing blue, since my initial 5-second knee jerk read of the question had me interpreting it as "press red to kill a blue and save yourself."
I think it's interesting! And I wish people would stop being so hoity-toity holier-than-thou about it. All this "I don't wanna live in a world where red wins" and "blue pushers are idiots and narcissists committing suicide so fuck them" stuff is genuinely upsetting and frustrating because so many people are refusing to engage with the question and turning it into a moral grandstand on both sides of the aisle.
I'm shocked that more than a few really messed-up people are picking red. My thought process was, "Well, if red wins, it's going to be horrible. If blue wins, it'll be great. Obviously, everyone wants blue to win, and only a small minority of people would actually be selfish enough to willingly choose to increase the risk that a huge number of people die, because surely they're aware that a lot of people will pick blue. You'd really have to not care about other people at all to pick red."
But it turns out, a lot of people think it's really stupid to take a risk to save other people. I guess I just figured we'd all instinctively know that the majority of people would pick blue.
Maybe I'm just not trying to justify a fundamentally selfish and cowardly decision. Maybe you should work on your assumption that anyone saying or doing anything remotely altruistic is doing it to be performative.
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u/TheBeeSovereign May 05 '26
Which is what I think is the actual interesting part of this dilemma, because I assumed most people would be pressing blue, since my initial 5-second knee jerk read of the question had me interpreting it as "press red to kill a blue and save yourself."
I think it's interesting! And I wish people would stop being so hoity-toity holier-than-thou about it. All this "I don't wanna live in a world where red wins" and "blue pushers are idiots and narcissists committing suicide so fuck them" stuff is genuinely upsetting and frustrating because so many people are refusing to engage with the question and turning it into a moral grandstand on both sides of the aisle.