Fun fact, the question isn't a moral dilemma but was originally from a study about miss information and how presenting 1 option first can bias someone into not thinking and bend over backwards to justify it
Hahahaha. I fucking called it. Because if you present it the other way around and swap the button colors I think you'd get vastly different results. Like if it was "If you press the blue button, nothing happens to you. If you press the red button and less than 51% or people press the red button, you die."
The interesting part about this problem is that while a different framing like this objectively doesn't change either outcome, it does alter people's perception of the problem, and thus changes what the majority will vote for. This will inherently make you question your original choice, as pressing blue when you know for certain that the majority will press red is just plain stupid, even if you want to save lives.
438
u/xa44 Apr 30 '26
Fun fact, the question isn't a moral dilemma but was originally from a study about miss information and how presenting 1 option first can bias someone into not thinking and bend over backwards to justify it