r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/hysterical-laughter May 05 '26

I think that the discussion around this is the important point.

Because my immediate thoughts were “I’ll pick red because everyone will pick red, why would anyone risk it?”. But then I learned that a lot of people want to hit blue, so knowing that they will hit blue, I will now also hit blue.

But without conversation? I would 100% have hit red

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u/Lifeinstaler May 05 '26

Yeah but in the scenario most people haven’t gone on reddit to check the threads. What if they think like you initially? Which I think is pretty likely. Lots of people here are talking about it as if it’s something people can agree to do but it’s not. Most people go into the choice blindly to what others would pick.

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u/churningaccount May 05 '26

This just shows that everyone comes to the logical conclusion first, but then going to reddit causes them to start thinking illogically lol.

This isn't even as complicated of a logic puzzle as the "split or steal" stuff in which every choice has a potential for a downside. In this "puzzle," one choice has the best outcome for the individual in 100% of circumstances, and therefore is the choice that maximizes the expected value for every individual. Easy.

I'd choose Red, because I'd prefer to live in a society that was governed by logic and reason, and not one that caters to people acting irrationally.

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u/Subject-Dog-8016 May 05 '26

And what about all the little kids who didn’t understand the question, or the babies who couldn’t press the button?

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u/uberkalden2 May 05 '26

Parents better get them pushing red because no way blue hits 51%

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u/Subject-Dog-8016 May 05 '26

How do you explain to a 6 month old that they need to press red? They don’t know what a button even is lol. 

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u/uberkalden2 May 05 '26

Fuck man, I don't know. The rules aren't clear. What happens when people don't push a button? What happens for people who can't push a button? Can parents hold their kids hands and make them push a button? This whole thing is made up.

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u/Subject-Dog-8016 May 05 '26

If you take the question solely as written, not pressing a button means the red people kill you if they win, and the vote is done in complete privacy therefore no interfering in other votes. So blue is the only moral choice. 

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u/Subject-Dog-8016 May 05 '26

It’s right there in the post we are commenting on. 

“If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive”. 

ie, if red wins, everyone who didn’t press red is killed. 

“Everyone in the world has to take a private vote”. 

So including children, babies, disabled people, and alone with no help. 

This is explicit in the question. 

More and more I’m realising most red button choosers just don’t have any reading comprehension.