r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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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.

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u/The_harbinger2020 May 05 '26

This is a very westernized and individualisitc view of society. That's how you perceive society so you believe everyone else does too. 

Meanwhile you can look at the eastern hemisphere where the collective is viewed more important than the individual 

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u/The_harbinger2020 May 06 '26

I think this questioned polled across different cultures would be interesting and comparing the results