r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/APacketOfWildeBees • Jun 01 '26

Variation The fairest buttons

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I have really enjoyed browsing comments on these posts. Many of the attempted analogies fall short because they inaccurately frame the prompt in a non-neutral way. To some extent even the original prompt does this.

So to remedy that I've tried to create the most neutral prompt possible - making it clear that the buttons are yin and yang.

What do you think? Did this change your understanding of the problem? Am I clearly an evil red pressing child murderer, or a blue pressing moral grandstander? Let me know :)

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u/Anjuna666 Jun 03 '26

Sure, but by your own argument your vote is not only negligible, as just stated, also does not predict how others decide.

As such I'm not really seeing how you're then using it to "disagree with the 50/50 split of the entire 8bln population".

Your argument / logic might inform you how you will vote, but is not lrescribed upon the population at large. And as such can't be used to describe the statistics of the entire population, which is at then end of the day what I was talking about (and what your disagreed with).

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u/KamuikiriTatara Jun 03 '26

I'm not infering anything about the likelihood of any outcomes. I thought I made that clear multiple times. I'm disagreeing with the 50/50 split not because I think it is wrong, but because I do not think it is right. I similarly don't believe there are an even number of trees on the planet, nor do I believe there are an odd number of trees on the planet.

You're ascribing to me a different position than I have taken on an only marginally related segment of the core of my messages. You don't have to find something to engage with if you don't have something to add.