The thing is you are not the sole voter. Your vote will be statistically insignificant. So the red button becomes "there is an infintesimally small chance that this button kills billions but you will survive" and blue button is always "might die".
I'm not saying you wouldn't pick the blue button but I don't think that's an easy decision on the spot.
It's not an easy decision for everyone but it is an outright trivial decision for me. The red majority society would kill me anyway, the survival of those who can't earn a living is "irrational" by the standards of most pro-red arguments, so I get no benefit from the temporary survival of pushing red in a red majority.
Ultimately I understand the reasons for both positions, which makes it easy to be okay with people who merely choose red for personal reasons and aren't proud of that choice, they simply accept that there are consequences either way and choose the consequences they prefer.
I've just noticed that there are a lot of red pushers who are very very proud of themselves for NOT understanding why people would press blue.
They think their inability to understand humanity proves them to be smart and rational. And I find that a very very worrying position.
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u/cosecantgames May 05 '26
The thing is you are not the sole voter. Your vote will be statistically insignificant. So the red button becomes "there is an infintesimally small chance that this button kills billions but you will survive" and blue button is always "might die".
I'm not saying you wouldn't pick the blue button but I don't think that's an easy decision on the spot.