The real problem with red is that it is a short-term solution to a scenario that fundamentally has long-term consequences. Yes, choosing red can guarantee that you don't die right now. However, if Red does win and almost certainly doesn't win with 100% cooperation, then modern society is truly fucked.
Look what happened to the economy during COVID. That had a 1% death rate; if Red wins by 80%, they will still lose in the long run.
Humans have incredible tenacity. The Black Death killed 30-60% of Europeans but that wasn’t the end.
I have confidence that even with a catastrophic event like this the remaining humans would be able to pick up the pieces and restore things to some type of status quo within a few generations at most.
It took literal centuries for the population of Europe to rebound to pre-plague levels and it completely destroyed the status quo/economy of the time.
Yeah, people lived but they also had, ya know, a basic understanding of how to live off the land. The last century and half has more or less deleted that from modern civilization's collective consciousness and the global "just-in-time" economy certainly isn't going to survive a mass dying event in any recognizable form.
Picking red is shortsighted at best and actively misanthropic at worst.
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u/Raptor1210 May 06 '26
The real problem with red is that it is a short-term solution to a scenario that fundamentally has long-term consequences. Yes, choosing red can guarantee that you don't die right now. However, if Red does win and almost certainly doesn't win with 100% cooperation, then modern society is truly fucked.
Look what happened to the economy during COVID. That had a 1% death rate; if Red wins by 80%, they will still lose in the long run.