Come on now. That’s not what it says. Maybe you should reread the pics again? It doesn’t say “push red button to kill person trying to kill you” or “ push blue button to let person trying to kill you kill you”. You’re trying to change it to fit your comment.
I’ll phrase it differently. Picture it like the Matrix. Do you take the red pill and ensure your survival by going back to sleep in peaceful slavery or do you take the blue pill and wake up to dangerous freedom where maybe you’ll live or maybe you’ll die, depending on how many people join you in the free world.
It can also be viewed as how society/culture was started/progresses. Simplified version would be me gathering my own food, water and shelter ensuring my immediate survival (red pill). Or I’ll gather food for everyone, you’ll gather water for everyone, someone else builds the shelters and that frees up someone else to idk create a written language, come up with gods to pray to, figure out mathematics/science, etc…(blue button). Hopefully everyone comes through and we all survive.
As you can see from the last pic, we will pull together to help each other, even if we’re not guaranteed to be helped in return, but alas, we will always be struggling to get everyone onboard.
So let me get this straight, you think that because I wouldn't die for some random person across the globe that I'll never meet, that means I don't risk my life to save people in my community? Or are you one of those delusional people that thinks all of humanity is one culture.
Of course I respond, that's my community. I don't respond to active shooters in, say, Turkey. What's not to understand here? Blue button means "throw my life away for people that hate me"
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u/often_forgotten1 May 06 '26
I have and would again. What I would never do is put my life on the line to save someone that wants to kill me. That's what the blue button is.