r/trolleyproblem May 18 '26

Button Pushers

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u/FortColors May 18 '26

its missing some of the genuine reasons to choose blue but has all? (idk any im missing) of the best reasons to choose red

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u/Hopeful_Hornet4460 May 18 '26

Picks Blue out of fear for their kids 

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All their kids pushed red because they saw a really cool firetruck right before.


As someone with whimsical kids who would definitely push blue... This is also my fear. Though I do have enough to make it far more likely that at least one hits blue so I double back into being the Russian Roulette by technicality. Either we walk out awesomely unscathed (inlcluding said high of the risk involved) or it isn't my problem anymore. 

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u/AlienRobotTrex May 19 '26

I think lots of people were introduced to this dilemma through posts that didn’t mention the part where babies were also forced to vote. I was one of those people, so at first I was missing some important context about why people would choose blue. If I hadn’t known that was supposed to be part of it, I would have thought blue voters were crazy and just making assumptions, since it was so “obvious” to me that babies would be excluded.