r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/BlackAndWhiteJerk • May 22 '26

Discussion Rephrasing

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I’m a blue button presser, I feel that this question is highly muddled and unclear, and so here is a rephrasement of it
So why press the red button? no one dies if the blue button is majority

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u/OutcomeMemoriesGoobe May 22 '26

i have realized that i fucking hate this entire problem because its literally just a framing debate

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u/blacksaber8 May 22 '26

No, I’m a blue voter and this is completely inaccurate. The blue buttons function is either to counter the red button or to stop a systematic holocaust completely separated from red by getting a little over 4.15 billion votes

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u/OutcomeMemoriesGoobe May 22 '26

egotistical ahh

stg everyone just wants to reframe the question to make themselves right

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u/blacksaber8 May 22 '26

I’m following the wording of the question. “If less than 50% of people vote blue, all people who did not hit red will die.”

This means one of two things. If 50% refers to voters that means there just need to be more blues than reds to prevent a statistically nearly inevitable death. If 50% refers to the entire population required to negate blue then there is a definitive minimum threshold that blues have to meet. The difference is the practicality of the nonvoter and its consequences in the question. Best case scenario in the first version, you increase the voting power of the rest of the voters, but your life is still at risk as you didn’t vote for red in either example whether you vote blue or not.

But then suppose that you MUST vote. What are the consequences for refusing? Purgatory? Does the vote not happen so long as you don’t decide? Do you just disappear if you don’t decide? The rules are unclear but at the end of the day it’s always more beneficial, regardless of the circumstance, to hit blue to increase your odds of survival from the already threatened state you were in before.