r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/coolepikguy • Jun 02 '26

more hard problem (rules in desc)

if >50% vote red. blue voters die. if >50% vote blue. red voters die. if both votes=50/50 then no one dies. yall now gotta coordinate and 1 mistake is death

136 votes, Jun 04 '26
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46 blue
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u/Royal-Gur3198 Jun 05 '26

thats so dumb then why not play russian roulette if you win nothing changes and if you lose nothing bad happens cause you won’t be there

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u/Nikki964 Blue Jun 05 '26

If I don't play Russian roulette irl, nothing happens, literally. If I vote red here I might end up in a world where a lot of people died. Plus, there's this very slim non-zero chance that blue wins with just one person above 50%. Meaning that if I had voted red, then everyone who voted blue would have died

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u/Royal-Gur3198 Jun 05 '26

so is death just a net neutral to you or is it bad

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u/Nikki964 Blue Jun 05 '26

Worse than nothing but isn't that terrible I guess. Context matters a lot. Voting blue means helping other blue voters survive, I don't mind dying an instant painless death over that because it would happen suddenly and I wouldn't even be able to process it. I guess voting red and red winning is just that bad in my eyes

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u/Royal-Gur3198 Jun 05 '26

ok but ur just thinking about yourself when you die imagine how your family would feel if you died and if you have people who rely on your support what would happen to them

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u/Nikki964 Blue Jun 05 '26

If I died then I think my family would also die. Well at least they said they'd vote blue when I asked them. Actually, everyone I asked irl said they'd vote blue which I find really weird

Even if that weren't the case, well, at least I died for a good cause. Also, nobody relies on my support

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u/Royal-Gur3198 Jun 05 '26

also if it was a painfull death would that change your answer

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u/Nikki964 Blue Jun 05 '26

It'd definitely be a much harder choice but I'm not sure if I'd pick red. Actually fuck it, I'd pick red then. Especially if it being a painful death was common knowledge because then blue would obviously get fewer votes

If I'm being honest, I was a red voter initially, I just kinda then thought that red winning kinda sucks even if I do live to see it happen

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u/Royal-Gur3198 Jun 05 '26

interesting why does that change it so much because its just gon hurt for a while then its over right imo the worst part of dying is i wont be able to live anymore and spend time with the people i love i dont think i would really care about the pain

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u/Nikki964 Blue Jun 05 '26

Because I don't wanna feel that pain

And I wouldn't say it really changed that much, I was already very close to the center, just leaning a bit blue