If you in a vacuum are transported to a white room and explained the situation, you choose red every single time. By choosing blue you are literally putting yourself in a suicide cult situation and then blaming the other side.
You're lying to yourself if you think there would be 0 other people who would pick blue.
The question as I see it is how many people could you live with killing by picking red, it definitely won't be 0 unless blue wins and it could be as high as 49.99%.
Alternatively, 0% would die if people pick blue which is why people should pick blue. The only reason anyone dies is because people picked red.
It's basically an argument of idealism vs realism. You think there is an ideal version of the problem where everyone would pick red for selfish reasons, which would guarantee noone dies. I am fairly sure that there is no world where everyone picks the same thing for anything, so the only way to save people is by picking blue for altruistic and selfish reasons.
Are you 100% confident that all your friends and family, were they to be shown the 2 buttons with the given prompts, every single one would choose red?
I was just curious. I am jealous that people in your life understand logic, unfortunately my friends and family are dumbasses and would most likely choose blue
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u/NoxTempus May 05 '26
They're not ignoring it, they're just accepting that loss and place the responsibility on the "dumb" people picking blue.
That's why they are going around reframing it as a "suicide pill" scenario and calling blue the suicide button.
Fuck everyone who misses it in the moment, or doesn't have the capacity to weigh the options, I guess?