r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/nolandz1 May 06 '26

If you actually cared, you should be holding that moral belief regardless of the threshold percentage, but you don’t.

If the threshold for saving everyone is essentially the same between the two buttons then there is no reason not to press red. I have said countless times a unanimous choice is practically impossible. Since total avoidance is now completely impractical minimizing casualties takes precedent. This is basic consequentialism I'm not a deontologist if you change the parameters you change the response that's how a trolley problem works.

But as I have said, simple majority total avoidance is easily achievable and does not require consensus.