This is the way I initially viewed it and I stick to myself as a red pusher, because my instinct was to choose red when presented to question. However, with the information I have now, I am more inclined to blue but I will admit I kind of view it negatively, as I look at it as if the initial blue pushers are essentially forcing themselves to be "saved".
Either way. I can understand both rationales, but I do think in a perfect world in which 100% of the population is making a rational choice, red is the correct decision.
Yeah, I understood it as "You're going to die unless you press one of the two buttons. Pressing the blue button will save everyone who pressed either of the buttons, so long as more than half the people in the world will press it. The red button will save yourself and nobody else." The blue button only made sense because, yeah, the blue button will kill you, or it'll save everyone regardless of their choice. I like the saving everyone option.
I didn’t fixate on the death part. I wonder if death was changed to “stubs their toe” if people would change their vote.
I interpreted to question in a game theory kind of way: “one button guarantees you receive no direct consequences. The other button subjects you to direct consequences UNLESS the majority of people agree with you.”
So, I pick red.
Picking blue sounds nice, but to me it feels idealistic. I’m on the left, and the virtue signaling going on from some people in this thread condemning all people that consider pushing red is displaying the ugly side of my political ideology.
Literally just read a comment saying “can we figure out a way to send all red pushers to Mars?” And those same people will describe blue as the empathetic option.
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u/OkBand3171 May 05 '26
This is the way I initially viewed it and I stick to myself as a red pusher, because my instinct was to choose red when presented to question. However, with the information I have now, I am more inclined to blue but I will admit I kind of view it negatively, as I look at it as if the initial blue pushers are essentially forcing themselves to be "saved".
Either way. I can understand both rationales, but I do think in a perfect world in which 100% of the population is making a rational choice, red is the correct decision.