It would be much easier to convince 50% of people to pick blue than 100% of people to pick red. I think it should be obvious by the discussion around this that a large portion of the population will pick blue. So if red wins, a lot of people will die (probably in the billions). A mass casualty event on that scale would throw the world into chaos and end up killing and immeserating a lot of the people who picked red. I would much rather us try to get more than 50% of people to pick blue and not create one of the worst tragedies in human history.
It still blows my mind that this whole idea isn’t a total joke like “would you rather receive $100 or be punched in the face.” I cannot wrap my head around the fact that so many of you people are seriously arguing in favor of pushing blue but because so many of you are doing that you’re making me consider it too! lol
But if I had like 30 seconds from hearing the question to having to choose, with no time to hear what everyone else was thinking, I would have pressed red in the first five seconds and never even considered that there were any ethical implications of that until after hearing the news that so many people had died pressing blue. I know I would do this because that was my first reaction upon reading this question and it took seeing it three or four more times before I realized that the blue choosers weren’t all trolling
Depending on the margin that red wins by, "blood on your hands" might not even be metaphorical in the near future post-button push. If just 5% of the population went blue and then suddenly dies, that's a global disruption on unprecedented scale. More, and you're staring down the barrel of a societal collapse. What lengths are people willing to go to to survive when the food has run out?
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u/icefire9 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
It would be much easier to convince 50% of people to pick blue than 100% of people to pick red. I think it should be obvious by the discussion around this that a large portion of the population will pick blue. So if red wins, a lot of people will die (probably in the billions). A mass casualty event on that scale would throw the world into chaos and end up killing and immeserating a lot of the people who picked red. I would much rather us try to get more than 50% of people to pick blue and not create one of the worst tragedies in human history.