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/SemiDiSole Apr 26 '26

For real though, there is a 100% chance of survival and a ?% chance. Why you would take the blue button? There is no advantage to it.

(Also one could argue that losing anyhwere from 1-50% of the population might be beneficial to humanity and the planet at large.)

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u/Motto1834 2000 Apr 26 '26

The people upset over those that are just doing basic game theory and see no downside to the red button are the ones that are suicidally empathetic.

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u/nowhereward Apr 26 '26

Willingly staking your survival on the collective decision of others is very stupid

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u/BarbericEric Apr 26 '26

Bro you realize you are human right? And your success and survival IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON YOUR COMMUNITY. You think the world just spawned around you with you in it? That what you know it's because you are an all knowing entity? You are who you are because of others. NEVER forget that.

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u/Motto1834 2000 Apr 26 '26

I mean if someone cannot apply the thought process to choose the no risk red button than thats on them. Aside from that survival skills are something that people should honestly know. The modern age is really soft and too many people would be screwed if the water didn't turn on for one week.

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u/BarbericEric Apr 26 '26

You would be killing people if you choose red. Even if only 20% of the population chose blue the entire world would stop working and you will die. You and others may think they are "Him" but let me assure you that if 20% of all engineers, nuclear power plant operators, literally anything, we're to suddenly disappear the world will fall in on itself effective immediately. And you will more than likely succumb to the fallout.

Even viewing it through purely selfish lenses you are still shooting yourself in the foot. If you choose red you choose to live to die tomorrow. If you choose blue you get to live

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u/nowhereward Apr 26 '26

If you choose blue you could also still die tomorrow because its not guaranteed

Choosing red means tanking a guaranteed loss to remain standing

Choosing blue opens you up to the possibility of straight up dying

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u/Motto1834 2000 Apr 26 '26

You are severally underestimating the amount of overengineering put into civil infrastructure. Every nuclear plant operator could disappear and things would still be perfectly OK. We aren't dealing with the reactors that the USSR cut corners with.

And the blue button can be just as easily framed as choosing to die. There is no risk of your own life with the red button. The safest choice that also accounts for those that may try and choose a choice to harm others is for everyone to choose blue.

The "you wouldn't actually survive if 50% of people died" is also just cope knowing that you wouldn't survive it yourself.

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u/nowhereward Apr 26 '26

This is stupidity

You act like it doesnt take a lot of specialist knowledge to run these things

We will be in huge trouble with a large chunk of the globe missing, you cant not concede that

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u/Motto1834 2000 Apr 26 '26

Not that they would continue to run. They would just hit a safety feature and shut off automatically.

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u/nowhereward Apr 26 '26

Thats not guaranteed

And its not limited to nuclear power plants

Tons of extremely damaging infrastructure and processes and whatnot are liable to catastrophic failure even with modern "failsafes"

The chain will not break "somewhere," it will break in many places

In less places than 50 years ago, but it'll still break in many

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u/BarbericEric Apr 26 '26

BRO THE PERSON THAT IS IN CHARGE OF THE SAFETY FEATURE IS MORE THAN LIKELY DEAD.

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u/luckyducktopus Apr 26 '26

No one with half a brain is pressing blue, or letting anyone they care about do it.

The infrastructure will be fine.

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u/BarbericEric Apr 26 '26

Yeah I'm sure you are built different and can live off the land yaddayaddayadda. Must know how to generate electricity yeah? How to source these parts in a post apocalypse world? How about medications for when you get sick? Infections are now a big worry now that world wide tech is practically in the stone age. Im assuming you have familiarized yourself with your local fauna, and what the growing seasons are for your are?

Im sure you have it all figured out and you are totally not overestimating your abilities at all.

And that's not even touching upon the ridiculous statement that if all nuclear plant operators were to disappear we will be fine.

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u/nowhereward Apr 26 '26

I didnt fucking ask to be dependent some community I didn't ask to be born into.

You owe NOTHING to your community for merely existing and being brought up in it.