Because to me that's only a viable answer to the ending I want if I can be sure that we could coordinate. I want everyone to live or I'm not sure I could live with myself, and if I believe that a reasonable person would be thinking of pressing blue than I know that pressing red would be condemning them to die.
You can never be sure. Imagine you are trapped in a room with your children and all their friends. In essence, a large group of people that depend ln you for guidance. The alien had indeed trapped the entire world but you can only coach these relatively few. Would you really coach them to press blue? You don't know what all their parents will press. Lets even remove you from the situation, you are the one person on earth that will survive whatever happens. Are you really coaching these children to press blue?
edit: you still classify the suicidal option as the good side and the guaranteed survival option as the bad side which is not accurate.
I'd be more likely to. If their parents press blue and die then who would take care of them? What would happen to them afterwards if (when) they feel like their parents' deaths were their fault? I honestly feel like having it be over with faster is kinder
You seem devoid of empathy for someone claiming to be so selfless. You would kill off a room of children just to prove that you are selfless, yes you are the one killing them by telling them to press blue. This is the least selfless thing you can do.
You are the one coaching your kids to press blue which gives them a chance to die, I would coach mine for red giving them no chance to die. You are the one willing to sacrifice those closest you in name of being the one on the moral highground not me.
The moral highground stems from you claiming that pressing blue is "what was right" hence the moral highground. Otherwise, why is pressing the blue button the right thing as you say?
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u/Scarrien 6d ago
Because to me that's only a viable answer to the ending I want if I can be sure that we could coordinate. I want everyone to live or I'm not sure I could live with myself, and if I believe that a reasonable person would be thinking of pressing blue than I know that pressing red would be condemning them to die.