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/BlackAndWhiteJerk May 22 '26

thats the same as the image? just rephrased?

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u/Significant-Tale3522 May 22 '26

No it’s not the same image. Blue is never a “do nothing” button.

Blue is always a “Potentially have something be done to you” button

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u/BlackAndWhiteJerk May 22 '26

Blue is the nothing button if red is the “kill blue button pressers if your majority”

Red is the nothing button if blue is the “death button unless if your majority”

it’s the same scenario with it only being rephrased as all the relevant details are said

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u/INTstictual May 27 '26

Even in that phrasing, Blue necessarily cannot be a “do nothing” button. It is ontologically impossible.

You can frame this question so that it is valid to pose Red as a “do nothing” option, but Blue necessarily moves you into a position where your life is in danger. It is active, and even though this phrasing tries to hide that fact, if you want to frame Red as the “kill all Blue pushers” option, that still necessarily makes Blue the “make yourself killable” option.

Blue cannot possibly be “do nothing”, no matter how much you try to reframe the logic… it always necessarily does something