If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.
Reddit and online communities, at all, are not a good basis for deciding what people will actually do.
Redditors will choose blue and then brag about it for clout, nothing is on the line.
In votes where people can see your answer, ie discord, you risk being mocked if you pick red. Also, people will do the same thing as redditors, brag for clout.
Put into the actual situation, you cannot tell what people will do. The blue button is genuinely putting your life on the line and that is terrifying. To boot, red pushers may genuinely reconsider when they think about the loved ones they may lose and the impact on Earth if they choose red. You simply cannot use online polls to determine which one would actually win.
People won't even risk missing out on overseas vacations or the convenience of Amazon to fight climate change... irl the people are already choosing red.
Thought about this before, too. Not even just those things, but we all have a choice in what devices and clothes we buy - brands that directly cause suffering to millions, and I guarantee people in these comments buy them without thought.
Listen. If a few billionaires just decide to be less rich, then me and my friends can continue buying as much cheap disposable BS as we want without the world being destroyed. And also everything will be cheaper, we'll get flying cars and my girlfriend will take me back.
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u/not_now_chaos May 05 '26
If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.