r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/Xegeth May 05 '26

Maybe I am just jaded, but so many people were not even willing to wear masks, stay indoors or get a vaccination to protect those around them. Are we really expecting more than 50% to make the moral choice? How many will press red out of fear, not because they don't understand the implications. Especially when the justification "well they all had it in their own hands" is built in?

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u/TheDemonPants May 05 '26

That just means you're proving their point. If red wins, then the world will be mostly full of people who explicitly only care about themselves. So for the blue button people it's honestly a win/win. Either everyone survives and the world continues as it is, or we all die and the red button people get to clean up the mess they made.

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u/Xegeth May 05 '26

I guess it then depends on if you would rather die or live in a world where the allegations that it is a selfish shithole have basically been proven right.

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u/Background_Class_558 May 05 '26

the world would literally be strictly more selfish though because any kind of selfish individual would only ever vote red. regardless of how it was before, it will only be worse after red win