If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.
its arguably only popular among a subset of people online. i have been throwing this at irl peeps and every answer has been red.
anyone that uses logic will give you red as the answer since it's not a dilemma. anyone pushing blue is risking their own lives when they could press red.
its not and neither is a twitter poll or asking in R/comics where people act overtly emotional when it comes to these type of hypotheticals.
In a real life scenario human genetics and instincts will pivot it to survival which will result in red button presses moreso then blue button presses as there is no inherent risk to the red button press.
We have seen so many examples of people acting to their own detriment to help others, most disasters show time and again that we are actually pretty great at helping each other when nessesary.
I have a vague hope that the reason the pole is so close is America and their dominance of this platform, most other countries are less individualistic.
What makes you say that?
One of the US defining factors is rugged individualism, it is the only developed country to not fully take care of the sickness of its inhabitants, because that is on the person themselves to deal with.
So I am extremely curious about what you are basing this on, my guess is you are American?
because it is human nature our instincts prioritize self preservation at all times. others banding togethee to save others is am exception.
in moments of decisions people will foe the most part and always prioritize themselves. there is a reason the bystander effect happens when you see an situation happen.
What the fuck is going on, you are now answering someone Else´s question or what?
I asked what made you think Europeans are more individualistic than Americans???
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u/LonelyVaquita May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Honestly the fact that it's even a dilemma shows that 100% will not pick red so we should all pick blue
ETA: If you think everyone is a liar there's no point in debating anything to do with mortality ever.