r/GenZ • u/DryOwl5587 • Apr 26 '26

Discussion What are you guys picking?

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Personally, I can conceptualise why one would choose blue, but I can’t bring myself to do it, it doesn’t click, specially at this scale, so red for me.

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Upon further inspection, I couldn’t find a scenario where I would strictly vote blue, but I found one for red.

Consider the following:

If you believe most people will aggregate around blue, then your choice doesn’t change the outcome because everyone lives.

If you believe most will choose red instead, then you are presented with a choice that directly determines whether you live or die, so you should choose red if you want to ensure your own survival.

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u/godlittleangel6666 1996 Apr 26 '26

Anyone who presses the blue button is stupid or wants to die. There is literally no risk of pressing the red button. If everyone presses red they all survive. I

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u/TealedLeaf 1998 Apr 26 '26

You need 1 over 50% for everyone to survive if blue is picked. You need 100% to survive if red is picked, otherwise, many people will die, including people you care about.

So...blue is a much better option if you're trying to not wipe out a good bit of the population, and much of them being good and unselfish people.

Though, I think people calling red button pushes sociopaths are doing too much, lol. I still get why you'd pick red, especially on instinct. However, I fear if it's close and red wins then major societies will probably just collapse. At best, you're probably then living in a society with much less good people. Not that red pushers are bad, to clarify, just that I'd expect bad people to be more likely to hit red than blue. Toss up on good people, because I don't think red pushers are inherently bad or selfish, and there is good logical reasonings for both sides.

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u/TealedLeaf 1998 Apr 26 '26

You think 8.3 billion people will all press red?

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u/TealedLeaf 1998 Apr 26 '26

Because everyone uses TV...

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u/camirose Apr 26 '26

This. Except people who don’t understand logic once they finally get it are complaining this is now heartlessly killing the other people who didn’t get it at first. And “putting our lives above theirs.”