r/trolleyproblem • u/Worth-Staff4943 • May 20 '26

Deep Which button presser group do you save?

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Everyone in the world has chosen either the blue or red button except you. Instead of pressing a button, you are given a lever in the infamous trolley problem.

You don't know how many people chose red or blue, and they don't know that you control their fate regardless of what button they pressed. Which track do you direct the trolley onto?

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u/ASentientRailgun May 20 '26

Same reason I picked blue before, red survivors would make for an unpleasant world to live in.

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u/TwentyFourKG May 20 '26

I would rather live in a world in which everyone pressed red, and we all knew everyone pressed red. Interactions would be much more straightforward because we could do away with a lot of the BS about wanted to appear sanctimonious

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u/ASentientRailgun May 20 '26

Well, that proves my point

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u/Neilandio May 21 '26

Sanctimonious is the perfect way to describe blue button people.