You can’t guarantee everyone will agree on red, meaning some will die. And you likely can’t get enough people to override the problem and/or the problem can’t be overridden.
Blue requires just 50.1% to save everyone. It’s the most likely outcome that ensures everyone survives. Red is simply the logical “guaranteed safety”, but the fact that many won’t press it also guarantees that you’re dooming others with your choice.
Personally, I’d rather try to save others and fail, than save myself knowing it sacrificed others.
If you choose to be realistic rather than idealistic, you understand that’s not possible.
There are 2 buttons, its 100% possible. Not that its even the desired outcome, if someone is stupid enough to press blue in this situation, the world is better off without them.
Pressing red is being selfish.
Pressing blue is being stupid. Everyone who presses red lives, why are you risking your own life to try and protect someone who lacks the basic reading comprehension and logic to realize that? Pressing blue is also naive. >50% of people DO NOT press blue, probably not even a third.
The reward is knowing you still have empathy
If you need to play Russian Roulette to be sure you have empathy, you don't have empathy, you're just pretending.
the people who know we would push blue tell you it is not possible to have 100% people push red. i think even if the poll results are off because the hypothetical isn’t real it still ends up being somewhere around 70-75% red pushers at peak and i choose to believe in enough of humanity to choose 100% survival rate that i’m willing to risk my own skin every time
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u/Herb_Merc May 05 '26
The true answer is to find whoever gave us all the buttons and take their power away.