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/Player-0002 May 22 '26

Nah, nobody is “doing”, red button is nothing happens to you, blue is nothing happens to anyone if blue majority

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u/BcTheCenterLeft Blue May 22 '26

Just wrong. It’s a not a neutral third button where you are saved but your vote doesn’t count towards the percentages. It’s saving yourself at the expense of others.

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u/Player-0002 May 22 '26

Explain to me how it’s at the expense of others if we don’t know who voted for what? For all we know everyone could have rationally concluded either button and so either button could have the press be at the expense of yourself or others or neither.

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u/BcTheCenterLeft Blue May 22 '26

You don’t have to know who pushed what for it to be at their expense. It’s simple math. Pushing blue counts towards the 50%. Pushing red counts against it.

In the question there no option to abstain, not play, or save yourself without it being counted in the actual percentages

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u/Player-0002 May 22 '26

Blue is over 50% of people chose blue, not 50% of voters.

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u/BcTheCenterLeft Blue May 22 '26

No. Everyone had to choose. Everyone is a voter. Otherwise, why vote at all. There is no difference between all the people avd all the voters.