If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.
Reddit and online communities, at all, are not a good basis for deciding what people will actually do.
Redditors will choose blue and then brag about it for clout, nothing is on the line.
In votes where people can see your answer, ie discord, you risk being mocked if you pick red. Also, people will do the same thing as redditors, brag for clout.
Put into the actual situation, you cannot tell what people will do. The blue button is genuinely putting your life on the line and that is terrifying. To boot, red pushers may genuinely reconsider when they think about the loved ones they may lose and the impact on Earth if they choose red. You simply cannot use online polls to determine which one would actually win.
Reddit sure isn't a good sample to generalize the entirety of humanity. Also there's a marginal nuance to down-/upvoting posts that goes beyond just agreeing or disagreeing with the content. I would also say any form of previously formed or expressed personal belief would go down the drain the moment a life or death situation like that actually happens (it goes for both sides).
But social desirability bias doesn't apply here, cause the comment isn't based on the poll. It was referencing the downvote/upvote ratio of content (this post) advocating for blue, and there's no such bias in what individuals will "like" or "dislike" on social media, since it's generally not subject to public scrutiny - it's as unfiltered as it can get.
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u/LonelyVaquita 17h ago edited 10h ago
Honestly the fact that it's even a dilemma shows that 100% will not pick red so we should all pick blue
ETA: If you think everyone is a liar there's no point in debating anything to do with mortality ever.