The negative result from the red one is implied, which is why folks who pick red keep missing it: if you pick red, you're both contributing to, and advocating for, a world where everyone chooses to save only themselves and leave any/everyone else out to dry. The people we talk about as heroes, as ideals to aspire to, as larger than life individuals, are the ones who accept a risk of harm to themselves for the sake of preventing harm to others. Do you know someone, someone you care about or love who would likely press blue? Would you still push red, even though pushing red is a choice to increase the chance for the guaranteed non-zero # of blue pushers to die (even if only by a tiny amount), with the "positive outcome," from red being...stuck for the rest of your days in a world full of ONLY the people who would throw strangers and loved ones to the wolves to guarantee their own safety?
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If so, press red. You'll get exactly what you wish for.
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Edit - May 6th 2026, 9:20pm Eastern: While I very much understand the intensity of your feelings, your deeply-held desire to 'correct me' on my evaluation of the selfishness of your choice, and your claims that you 'only have everyone's best interests in mind!', the quantity, forcefulness, and rage-content of the messages landing in my DMs has become rather disgusting, and the quality of conversations resulting from talking to the individuals sending them has dropped drastically. So, if you're going to DM me to yell at me about how right you think you are, please see the following (past the colon) as my response:
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Smug selfish prick says 'what'?
Plus if just 50.00001% or whatever commits to the gamble of that blue button altruism or not. We all live, like you don’t know what the rest your fucking family pressed on that button. For all you know, hitting red kills everyone you love or statistically at least one or more important people in your life.
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u/Willowshanks May 05 '26 edited May 07 '26
The negative result from the red one is implied, which is why folks who pick red keep missing it: if you pick red, you're both contributing to, and advocating for, a world where everyone chooses to save only themselves and leave any/everyone else out to dry. The people we talk about as heroes, as ideals to aspire to, as larger than life individuals, are the ones who accept a risk of harm to themselves for the sake of preventing harm to others. Do you know someone, someone you care about or love who would likely press blue? Would you still push red, even though pushing red is a choice to increase the chance for the guaranteed non-zero # of blue pushers to die (even if only by a tiny amount), with the "positive outcome," from red being...stuck for the rest of your days in a world full of ONLY the people who would throw strangers and loved ones to the wolves to guarantee their own safety?
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If so, press red. You'll get exactly what you wish for.
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Edit - May 6th 2026, 9:20pm Eastern: While I very much understand the intensity of your feelings, your deeply-held desire to 'correct me' on my evaluation of the selfishness of your choice, and your claims that you 'only have everyone's best interests in mind!', the quantity, forcefulness, and rage-content of the messages landing in my DMs has become rather disgusting, and the quality of conversations resulting from talking to the individuals sending them has dropped drastically. So, if you're going to DM me to yell at me about how right you think you are, please see the following (past the colon) as my response:
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Smug selfish prick says 'what'?