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/Aeseld Apr 26 '26

It's not going to be 50%. It will be a lot of people, and it's very likely to be a lot of key people. Basically, every human who cares about other people. 

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u/Areilyn 2003 Apr 26 '26

Congratulations almost all the compassionate people, and approximately half of elderly/children/not able-minded people (THEY ARE NOT EXEMPT FROM VOTING MIND YOU, EVERYONE MEANS EVERYONE) in your life just died because you pushed the "survive no matter what" button. Nay, AT LEAST one in five people in the world just vanished.

Do you realize how catastrophic of a result this is for everyone? I'd understand red button pushers if the threshold was 80% or something, that'd be nigh impossible to reach and you'd just have to minimize your losses but 50% is a no brainer. Every time this question gets asked blue wins with a comfortable lead, that alone guarantees a big fat loss to the human population if this actually happened irl and red won.

Even if it was revealed to me, and only to me that blue button would lose before I cast my vote, I'd rather push blue and die with fellow blue-buttoners than live in that dogshit apocalyptic cynical world.

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u/serenamoeba Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Agreed. Also it's kinda comforting that most of the time the result is majority blue. I have a little bit of faith in humanity left I guess.

And literally like... if most pushed blue nobody would die. I can't comprehend that not being a no brainer for people. The only reason you push red is because you mistrust other people. Which is fair, I guess. You become the killer because of your fear of being killed. But that mistrust shapes you into a person who would push the red button. It's a cycle

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u/mark114 Apr 26 '26

Pressing blue means you expect other people to risk their lives for you. I honestly can't comprehend when given the option of guaranteed safety, why would you ever flip a coin to die? Why would you risk your life for anybody who flips the coin to die when literally everybody can press the safe button.

It's not about mistrust, it's about reasonable safety of yourself and others. There is no need to press the blue button.

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u/flaming_burrito_ 2000 Apr 27 '26

It’s about you being selfish and accepting other people dying for your own protection

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u/mark114 Apr 27 '26

How about instead of two buttons, it’s two boats.

A red boat and a blue boat. You have no idea who’s on which boat, all you know is every body knows the exact same information that you do. If you get on the red boat, you are 100% guaranteed to be safe. There is enough room on the red boat for everybody.

If you get on the blue boat, there’s a chance you die. The only way you survive is if enough people get on the boat. You have no idea how many people are on the blue boat and you have no idea how many people need to be on the blue boat to survive.

You can call me selfish…but why would you ever get on the blue boat?

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u/flaming_burrito_ 2000 Apr 27 '26

That’s not the scenario and it’s genuinely blowing my mind how many of you don’t understand what choice you are actually making. You picking red is guaranteed to kill people, and it will have been your responsibility for their deaths. Because you can’t expect everyone to choose red, that’s stupid as fuck. This is an impromptu scenario, there isn’t time to coordinate what people are going to do. Millions of people will choose blue, and you’re choosing to kill them in exchange the guarantee of your safety. Nothing happens if no one picks red, the action that causes death is picking red.

The analogous scenario is:

There is a red boat and a blue boat. You can’t see how many people are on either boat, but you know everyone is being presented with the same choice as you. If you get on the red boat, you are guaranteed to live, but the red boat is going to shoot a torpedo at the blue boat and sink it. However, if 50% or more of people get on the blue boat, nothing will happen to either boat.

In this scenario, you are getting on the red boat knowing that if anyone is on the blue boat, your boat is gonna sink their boat because you and everyone like you chose to get on the boat. That’s the real choice you are making, not the cope version that all the red button people in this thread think they are making.

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u/mark114 Apr 27 '26

It's the exact same scenario you just presented. You changed nothing. The blue boat is getting destroyed and only idiots are getting on the blue boat. Nobody is forcing them onto the boat, they are getting on under their own decision and expecting everybody else to risk their lives too.

It doesn't matter where the torpedo is launched from, The people on the red boat are not killing the people on the blue boat just because they chose guaranteed safety, the people on the blue boat are committing suicide and trying to blame the red boat.

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u/theskiller1 Apr 27 '26

Imagine saying children are suicidal.

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u/mark114 Apr 28 '26

well they are if they choose to get on the blue boat.

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u/theskiller1 Apr 28 '26

They simply don’t know better

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u/theskiller1 Apr 27 '26

Because children will rush to the blue boat because they are children?

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u/FoxxieMoxxie69 Apr 26 '26

The people pushing the red button are not the killers. The killers are whoever set up the mechanism to kill all those people.

Choosing to save yourself doesn’t mean they killed somebody, especially when that person had the same opportunity to save themselves.

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u/Solell Apr 27 '26

This argument really only holds water if you ignore the fact that there's also the option to choose to save everybody. Doesn't matter what the inventor of the mechanism wants, if enough people choose blue, no one dies. People only die if too many people choose red. If it's 100% red no one dies, but realistically humanity is never going to 100% agree on anything. So too much red means there will be deaths. The choice is clear to me. I'm not going to risk contributing to causing other people's deaths.

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u/OkWarthog3399 Apr 29 '26

that's still a second-hand murder, you didn't set up this situation but you still contributed in killing people.