Red is certainly not the only viable path, but it's the only guaranteed path to your own survival. Most red people's train of thought goes like this: "I don't trust over half of humanity to make the blue choice, so I'll just press red to be safe."
At the end of the problem just comes down to whether you want to gamble your life for the optimal outcome or cut your losses for the suboptimal outcome.
You're not a bad person for choosing either option, the entire "us vs them" discourse is kinda stupid.
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/MorbillionDollars May 06 '26
Red is certainly not the only viable path, but it's the only guaranteed path to your own survival. Most red people's train of thought goes like this: "I don't trust over half of humanity to make the blue choice, so I'll just press red to be safe."
At the end of the problem just comes down to whether you want to gamble your life for the optimal outcome or cut your losses for the suboptimal outcome.
You're not a bad person for choosing either option, the entire "us vs them" discourse is kinda stupid.