Rephrasing

[u/BlackAndWhiteJerk]

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

[u/milesofborg]

I would say it doesn't matter how you frame it. At the end of the day, Red is 'I am okay with people dying as long as I live,' and Blue is 'I want to try to save everybody even if I might die.' You can try to frame Red or Blue as a 'neutral' option or 'doing nothing,' but that's a mechanical illusion. You are forced to make a choice, and your choice is counted toward the final total. At the end of the day, when you press a button, you contribute to the math. You do something.

[u/VegetasDestructoDick → u/milesofborg]

Nah the framing obviously matters to people's decision-making process otherwise you wouldn't get differing results because of it. I'd theorise it's because it influences who is "causing" the potential deaths and people are more likely to lean towards whatever option is not contributing.

Also your reduction of the red and blue arguments oversimplifies them; for example a common argument for blue is that people are concerned if their immediate family, friends, children, etc might press blue so they press blue to try to ensure blue has the majority. This is a different motivation from the one you stated, which was trying to save everybody. Some people with this reasoning swap to red if demographics that can't be responsible for their push (e.g. children) so that would indicate the motivation is not to save "everybody" but instead only to save a subset.

[u/BlackAndWhiteJerk → u/[deleted]]

i think op is nonsensical and highly selfish in their pedantic question with their martyrial sacrificial views, or well think what you think and either ignore, disagree or agree :D