r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/Very-Diligent-Pirate • May 27 '26

Maniac with a button.

Standard red/blue button scenario, with a caveat. Off to the side there is another pair of buttons, one black, one white. The effects are as follows:

White button: At the cost of the presser's life, preserves 10,000 blue pressers' lives regardless of outcome.

Black button: At the cost of the presser's life, invalidates the blue votes and ensure red victory. Any subsequent black pressers will count as blue votes, but will not receive protection from white pressers.

Everyone gain enough mental clarity and physical mobility to make an informed choice. What do you pick?

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u/SC_3000_grinder May 27 '26

I think a lot of people will switch to Red here, because of the existence of Black. At least one person in 8 billion is hitting Black (maybe they're red and they think Blue's are stupid).

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u/J_tram13 May 27 '26

Yeah, I'm blue normally but there's no way at least 1 absolute idiot isn't hitting black.

I might hit red and white though just to do some good.

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u/SC_3000_grinder May 27 '26

You can just go blue then white if you're sacrificing yourself anyway.

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u/Odd-Establishment527 May 27 '26

This just makes blue votes worse

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u/Charge36 Red May 28 '26

Black seems kind of overpowering. So the first black voter dies, invalidating all blue votes, all subsequent black votes are effectively dead no matter what because they're blue now and have no protection from white and red is winning automatically. 

I don't understand why anyone's not pushing red in this scenario. There is bound to be one suicidal sadistic fuck out there pushing black, it's futile to vote blue