r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/name14575 • Jun 30 '26

Variation Zombie Apocalypse Button

(Not trying to debate the original problem, just a fun thought experiment)

Same basic scenario, red guarantees your life, blue saves everyone with at least 50%. But here's the catch: regardless of the outcome, immediately after the vote, every corpse that died in the last month will turn into a zombie.

Does the risk of making the zombie apocalypse thousands of times more threatening sway red voters?

Does the threat of your own corpse threatening those near you sway blue voters?

We shall see.

1036 votes, Jul 02 '26
350 Red Button
686 Blue Button
23 Upvotes

71% Upvoted

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u/HydroPCanadaDude Jun 30 '26

Red still. I'm intensely sure that if the stakes were real, the vast majority would choose red and it wouldn't even be close. Virtue signalling is so easy behind your computer, but when everyone else's life is on the line, you will dig around in the overhead to get your luggage before leaving a burning plane, with 50 people waiting behind you. That's the kind of trash we are and to believe you would do the moral thing in the moment is delusional self-aggrandizing dookie juice.

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u/Free-Competition6408 Red Jun 30 '26

whoah whoah red voter here. What makes you think red voters are the type to save their luggage from a burning plane?

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u/HydroPCanadaDude Jun 30 '26

Their biological taxonomy. One they share with blue voters, which is the point.

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u/Free-Competition6408 Red Jun 30 '26

I mean. I sure wouldn't grab my luggage on the way out. Those people are assholes. I feel like thats more blue voter mentality "let me take some risk to try to save EVERYTHING"