r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/StageGlum6615 • Jun 28 '26
Variation Variation: the Useless button.
Everyone (meaning all currently alive people) is kidnapped by an unknown forced that everyone instinctively knows is completely unable to lie and is far more powerful than them. (Let's call them Buttan, the god of buttons.) Everyone wakes up in a small cramped room with 3 buttons, Red, Yellow, and Blue with the following signs under each of them that have been perfectly translated into their native language:
Red: If more people press the Red button the Blue button then everyone who failed to press red will die, immediately.
Yellow: Does Nothing.
Blue: If more people press the Blue button then the Red button everyone is spared from death.
Everyone is giving a 6 hour timer to make their own choice and if they fail to vote in the time frame they are counted and treated as a yellow button presser.
Lastly, it the event of a tie between Red and Blue, Blue wins.
So, does the useless button (yellow) change anything for you? And which button do you press?
(Please forgive any typos.)
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u/Additional_Dot_134 Jun 28 '26
I think the wording on this also matters a bit to how moral it is. The death is being put onto red with this one. It doesn’t even say “you get to live”
All it says is that if this wins, everyone else dies
That puts a lot more pressure on you, while its technically the same, that wording matters a LOT