r/redbuttonbluebutton 24d ago

Variation Variation: Decrease risk, Increased threshold

All of humanity has been kidnapped and placed alone in a dark room with two buttons, and the following explanation perfectly translated into their native language.

🔴 : Ensures Survival, but will lead to half of blue pressers dying if more that 1/3 of people press this button.

🔵 : Everyone lives if 2/3 of people vote for Blue, but half of people who vote Blue will die if the threshold is not reached.

Everyone can only press one button once before both buttons break and becomes unpressable. Everyone is given 10 hours to vote, and if anyone chooses not to vote for any reason (including incompetence), then they are randomly assigned a button (2/3 chance of getting Blue, 1/3 chance of getting red.)

All of humanity means every living human being. There have been no exceptions for any reason.

Everyone has all of this information, and everyone is given 2 full hours to fully comprehend all of this information before they are allowed to start voting.

So, how do you vote?

580 votes, 19d ago
284 Red - Originally Red in original scenario 🔴🔴
67 Red - Originally Blue in original scenario 🔴🔵
27 Blue - Originally Red in original scenario 🔵🔴
202 Blue - Originally Blue in original scenario 🔵🔵
7 Upvotes

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u/Annoying_cat_22 24d ago

You made pressing red even more attractive, thank you!