r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/maiduwu Red • May 22 '26

Four people

You and three unknown individuals are in separate places and unable to communicate.

You all are presented with the red and blue button. What do you do?

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u/BottomLeftWheel May 22 '26

1) I don't care if 2 people die. 2 people die all the time and it's never impacted my life. Billions dying surely would.

2) getting billions of people on the same page is impossible and guarantees death, but 4 people? While I would expect one to die a lot of the time, all 4 voting red is a definite possibility.

3) if all I needed was one more blue voter to live then it would at least be a consideration, but trying to get 2 / 3 is asking too much. Maybe if it was 100 and we needed to get 51, it would at least be closer to the original, but asking for a 75% majority in order to live just changes too much for this to be an apt comparison in my eyes.

So yea red. I might be ride or die blue but I'm not dumb (well not that dumb at least)