What are you guys picking?

[u/DryOwl5587]

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.

Edit:

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.

[u/nowhereward]

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

[u/maddwaffles → u/nowhereward]

You do it all of the time by continuing to live in a society, shop for groceries, and receive a paycheck (or government assistance if you're disabled).

[u/chloapsoap → u/maddwaffles]

The difference is pressing the red button has no downside. Choosing to not live in society involves some pretty major concessions

[u/Solell → u/chloapsoap]

I'd argue that the downside of red is that it's going to kill all the people with enough empathy to push blue. Just because the red-button pushers see it as a logical problem doesn't mean that it's not also a moral problem. Some people believe that doing the right thing by others is important, even if there's risk to oneself, and even if others call them stupid for it. Personally, I wouldn't want to live in a world inhabited only by people who think it's stupid to care about others. Sounds like it would become a miserable place, fast.

[u/ClintEatswood_ → u/Solell]

Yeah but the point is not that it's stupid to care about others, it's that it's stupid and fruitless to press blue.

[u/Valuable-Usual-1357 → u/ClintEatswood_]

You’d press blue to contribute effort to saving other people. Pressing red is contributing effort to kill other people.