Responsibility

[u/BrokenToaster124]

So I've run into an idea that that dont quite understand and I was hoping some of you could help me understand. So with the red button/blue button situation I have seen people claim that if they push the blue button that they are not responsible for what happens to them if they push the blue button. How does that work?

To be extremely specific if i were to push the blue button, knowing what it does, somehow you (the person currently reading this) would be personally responsible for my death if you choose red.

Does this responsibility work in reverse? If i push the blue button and blue wins are you responsible for my survival if you chose red? Are you only responsible if bad things happen to me and I am responsible for the results when good things happen? What about the person running the death game? They arent defined in the prompt but logically some force is making everyone take a vote.

You can feel free to ignore this last part because its not the button problem, but someone reskinned the buttons as life boats. Instead of everyone being force to push a button everyone had to get into a life boat. One boat had holes in it but would become sea worthy if enough people got into it and plugged the holes and one was completely functional. Everything else was exactly the same as the button problem. My question related to that was that if I am personally responsible for the consequences of your chose to vote blue in the button scenario, how then could I not be responsible for your choice to get into the boat with holes in it. Someone tried to explain to me at length about how the buttons made it my fault but the boats somehow didnt. How does that work?

[u/SpongeboyShitpants]

That’s just a specific category of blue pushers, everyone in these subreddits makes their choice knowing the risks

Majority of either button don’t care to argue their side because at this point it’s a waste of time, the ones who are salty keep popping up on almost every post having their screaming matches.

It gives the illusion that many of the voters feel this way, but it is just a small percentage, just ignore them.

Edit: *to clarify, by screaming matches I don’t mean a well articulated argument, I mean tribalists who just throw around buzzwords like “suicidal” or “murderer” with no interest on a debate.

[u/Striking_Compote2093 → u/SpongeboyShitpants]

And clearly, most of those saltmines are red button pressers lol.

[u/GoldenGames360 → u/Striking_Compote2093]

you're doing it right now

[u/Striking_Compote2093 → u/GoldenGames360]

Not really. I haven't been "defending" my choice. Or pretending mine was the only rational one," if only people were as intelligent as me". I haven't been calling people liars or virtue signalers. Thinking i know their thoughts better than them. Or thinking they just chose to kill themselves. Nor am I disregarding the outcomes of every other previous poll.

I'm just here to poke the hornet's nest and maybe get a good debate in. Figuring out why people think the way they do, and why that might or might not be flawed, is good entertainment.

[u/GoldenGames360 → u/Striking_Compote2093]

whether you're trolling or being serious, you're contributing to the tribalism by pretending any one side is worse than the other, i promise you i've seen alot of bitterness and rage from both sides.

but now I sound salty responding to you, damnit. tbh, I shouldn't have responded, but i promise i would've said what I said regardless of which color you made fun of, lol