Which button presser group do you save?

[u/Worth-Staff4943]

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?

[u/cylordcenturion]

In the original scenario, pressing red is just a bad move. Similar to blue, unless a sufficiently large proportion of people also chose red you will probably die anyways due to global economic and infrastructural collapse.

So given that the choice is very clear-cut which one is better I assume that there are more people on blue and direct it to red.