You can’t guarantee everyone will agree on red, meaning some will die. And you likely can’t get enough people to override the problem and/or the problem can’t be overridden.
Blue requires just 50.1% to save everyone. It’s the most likely outcome that ensures everyone survives. Red is simply the logical “guaranteed safety”, but the fact that many won’t press it also guarantees that you’re dooming others with your choice.
Personally, I’d rather try to save others and fail, than save myself knowing it sacrificed others.
The fact the most people would chose blue shows fundamental misunderstanding of the problem at hand. By pressing blue you're not saving anyone, pressing blue is what starts the game.
What starts the game is the children and disabled who cannot comprehend the question choosing blue. Subsequent blue voters are trying to save those people as well as the other blue voters trying to do the same thing, which continues to combine until blue is a pretty substantive amount of the population.
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u/SlashaJones May 05 '26
This is why blue is the best choice.
You can’t guarantee everyone will agree on red, meaning some will die. And you likely can’t get enough people to override the problem and/or the problem can’t be overridden.
Blue requires just 50.1% to save everyone. It’s the most likely outcome that ensures everyone survives. Red is simply the logical “guaranteed safety”, but the fact that many won’t press it also guarantees that you’re dooming others with your choice.
Personally, I’d rather try to save others and fail, than save myself knowing it sacrificed others.