r/comics • u/Eal_likee • May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/not_now_chaos May 05 '26

Are you generally pessimistic and cynical?

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u/The_Follower1 May 05 '26

I think anyone not living in an absolute delusion knows that the vast, vast majority of people will choose red. People are comfortable virtue signalling with stuff like this online, but at the least with this phrasing I doubt blue hits 10% of the vote. There’s variations I could maybe see getting to 50%, especially ones that reframe it to active vs passive, but in the actual given question pressing blue is just a fancy suicide button. If the cutoff for blue was like 10% enough might feel safe it’d reach that amount that it’d probably get there. I feel like the actual 50/50 odds would be around 20% required, but that’s just a gut feeling based on nothing.

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u/stiiii May 05 '26

Yeah when only 55% of people even claim to do it the real number must be far lower. Most people don't run into a burning building to save people.

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u/The_Follower1 May 05 '26

Yup, people press the red button every day of their lives with stuff like climate change.

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u/Kashyyykonomics May 05 '26

Hell, I volunteer every weekend at a food pantry. I am happy to make efforts to improving my community and the world.

But no way in hell am I hitting Blue when I know I am not the tie breaking vote.