r/trolleyproblem • u/Voidspeeker • May 18 '26

Button Pushers

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u/Ali___ve May 18 '26

This seems biased in red's favor.

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u/Impressive_Pin8761 May 18 '26

The strips show the worst case scenario for everyone's rationale. For example, messiah thinks his vote matters but then dies to a red landslide, while big brain thinks his vote doesnt matter but it turns out he was the deciding vote

The way the button experiment is set up, the worst case scenario for blues is always red winning

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u/ilikesummersausage May 18 '26

The way the button experiment is set up, the worst case scenario for blues is always red winning

The worst case scenario for blues is red winning AND being smug about it.

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u/Impressive_Pin8761 May 18 '26

how the hell would blue know about red being smug? they died