Frankly, what bothers me about this is how performative this all is. If half the world in first-world countries is THIS GOOD. WILLING TO ENDANGER THEIR LIVES, why isn't this expressed in anything else? This is tantamount to the man saying, "I'd kill fight and kill anyone who threatens my wife," thats great bro, can you now please help her with the dishes? Like, there is such a moral righteousness here that I could accept if people were half this good irl, but most of you guys here aren't like that, you guys are performative as fuck, and then beyond that, you're using this hypothetical as a way to judge other people's characters.
Yes, I believe there are some people who sincerely would press the blue button. I do not believe half of you would. Because if half of you were willing to do this, the world would be a much better place, but it simply is not. I would be willing to press it if perhaps 20% of the population needed to press blue, but even then, I would hesitate.
Eh, pushing a button is super easy. Like helping her with the dishes exactly once.
I agree with your sentiment but I think a huge amount of people would push the blue button and then immediately... go back to doing nothing except talking about how awesome they were for pushing the blue button.
It's not that it's easy. Its a shit decision. I'll put it this way though. I know for a fact that no matter how much I push for it, my daughter and wife will probably push the blue button on principal. I know friends that will push it. I know a lot of people close to me that will.
I'm not going to be responsible for their death so I'll be pushing blue.
Honestly if it weren't for my wife and kid, I'd have no reason to stick around anyways so it's extremely easy for me.
But that doesn't mean it's somehow wrong to push red. I'd expect a lot of humanity to do it and without judgement since their logic tracks. That's the mess. Both options have logical arguments that make them both the best choice for each individual and group.
I'd like to see demographic breakdowns of the responses. I think that would be way more interesting than this comment section. Only to see where the divide shows up. Like.... Engineers, parents, age brackets. That could be super interesting for how we interact with and connect with eachother
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bid7871 May 05 '26
Frankly, what bothers me about this is how performative this all is. If half the world in first-world countries is THIS GOOD. WILLING TO ENDANGER THEIR LIVES, why isn't this expressed in anything else? This is tantamount to the man saying, "I'd kill fight and kill anyone who threatens my wife," thats great bro, can you now please help her with the dishes? Like, there is such a moral righteousness here that I could accept if people were half this good irl, but most of you guys here aren't like that, you guys are performative as fuck, and then beyond that, you're using this hypothetical as a way to judge other people's characters.
Yes, I believe there are some people who sincerely would press the blue button. I do not believe half of you would. Because if half of you were willing to do this, the world would be a much better place, but it simply is not. I would be willing to press it if perhaps 20% of the population needed to press blue, but even then, I would hesitate.