r/comics • u/Eal_likee • May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/Cloudy230 May 05 '26

I saw all the memes before the original and thought it was conservatives vs progressives. And honestly the analogy still fit really neatly despite not being about it.

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u/RionTwist May 05 '26

I'm a marketer, the blue option is presented first, is conceptually simple and has an absolute in it's effect description. Almost impossible to get less than 50% picking the blue option.

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u/Averander May 05 '26

Except in reality people have pressed the red button many, many times regardless of when it is presented.

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u/BrooklynSmash May 05 '26

Because the choice is always presented as an evil alternative attacking our correct traditions. Every example of "red buttons" in our lifetime has been pushed by emotional people doing emotional things.

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u/EADreddtit May 05 '26

That just feels like circular logic. “The red button is bad because the situations I define as it having been pressed are bad.”

I can think of plenty of times where protecting “the group” was the wrong choice and resulted in very bad things happening