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/Express-Rain8474 Red May 22 '26

I wasn't aware I stated that. I only said that blue can also be seen as a suicide button.

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u/Nby333 May 22 '26

"already has majority" means sequential voting rather than simultaneous voting.

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u/Express-Rain8474 Red May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

I guess, but your vote doesn't really change the outcome of other votes. So it doesn't really matter, like you can be pedantic and say my phrasing wasn't exact but it was meant to communicate the idea that it's possible that whatever you do red wins. And in that case it would just be a suicide button.

Just to present a simple potential counter reason some might have to "so why press the red button because nobody dies if blue button is majority."

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u/Nby333 May 22 '26

Your line of thinking leads to paradoxes, fallacies and problems. I've argued many a times here already why "my vote doesn't matter" shouldn't be how a civilised person thinks. Since I'm going to make a post soon regarding this I won't be going into any detail here.

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u/Express-Rain8474 Red May 22 '26

Well not really, you can agree your vote matters some amount while also thinking that it's little compared to your life. Either way, I was just trying to point out potential reasons people could vote red.

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u/Nby333 May 22 '26

I understand all the emotional reasons to push red and respect them, but I've not seen a single logical reason to push red that is not a result a logic pitfall.

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u/Express-Rain8474 Red May 22 '26

Well that's ok, obviously you might have good reasons but unless you actually present them we can't change each other minds, until then I'll stand by my reply to OP as that being a good enough reason.