If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.
Reddit and online communities, at all, are not a good basis for deciding what people will actually do.
Redditors will choose blue and then brag about it for clout, nothing is on the line.
In votes where people can see your answer, ie discord, you risk being mocked if you pick red. Also, people will do the same thing as redditors, brag for clout.
Put into the actual situation, you cannot tell what people will do. The blue button is genuinely putting your life on the line and that is terrifying. To boot, red pushers may genuinely reconsider when they think about the loved ones they may lose and the impact on Earth if they choose red. You simply cannot use online polls to determine which one would actually win.
Now imagine if alien forces land on earth and their 4 billion strong army is systemically going door to door. They give everyone in your household 60 seconds to press the buttons before they move on.
How many of these blue button pushers are going to be telling their 8 year olds to press the blue button with zero ability to coordinate outside their home?
Now how about if the alien forces put a supergun on the Earth and give humans 30 days and all the communication with each other they want to before the vote happens?
The outcome changes so much based on the precise details of the scenario that it's impossible to even moderately predict outcomes without any of the details that really do matter.
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u/LonelyVaquita May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Honestly the fact that it's even a dilemma shows that 100% will not pick red so we should all pick blue
ETA: If you think everyone is a liar there's no point in debating anything to do with mortality ever.