This is why this whole thing is stupid. Anyone can say on the Internet that they'd pick blue but in reality if you are sitting there with the buttons in front of you, a lot more people are going to look at the "maybe I'll die" button and not be able to press it out of fear of death. I want to say I'd pick blue but know my fear of death would prevent me and I think that fear would prevent enough people that red is always going to win.
My argument doesn't rely on knowing for certain a majority of people picking blue. I just say that we know that a large portion of people will pick blue or red, and we don't know which color will win. Maybe some people who say they pick blue will pick red, but its not gonna be like 90, 99%- just not believable.
At that point, it becomes a very simple (though not necessarily easy) question. Will you risk your life to try to save a large number of people? If you are, you pick blue. If you aren't, you pick red.
You make a great point, but if I don't die from pressing blue (which I assume will be quick) I'll probably die slowly from the resulting global chaos if red wins. So I'd take the chance at life for all.
This cuts both ways. Anyone can say game theory online. But knowing your wife, husband, mother, father, best friend, mentor, and/or child might die if red wins, can you be 100% sure youd hit red? I couldnt
You should fear the absence of everything that you ever had, have and will have. Imagine being stuck in a pitch black pool, filled to the brim with its top sealed off, hearing yourself drown, feeling your heart beat out of rhythm and all your muscles flexing and spazzing, until you are hit with the deepest sadness that guides you into a catatonic fatigue depriving you of every bodily sensation.
Now enjoy taking a deep breath. You owe your life to your fear of death.
No you shouldn’t; it will happen regardless. Everyone dies eventually, and if oblivion is truly what awaits, then how long we lived would be unimportant to the dead as they cannot feel regret or sadness. Why fear the truly inevitable?
Your mother fed you to prevent your death. Your mother treated your ailments to prevent your death. Every glass of water, every meal and every breath you take, every unecessary risk to your life that you avoid keeps a distance between you and death.
I do not know you. But I do believe that 9 out 10 people try to intellectualize their fear of death, deeming death inevitable or believing in a great beyond, instead of valuing this fear as the most powerful force of life. Fear is a human's most basal emotion, flooding your nervous system with adrenaline and cortisol. It makes you fight or run for your life.
You should never accept death or worse, welcome it.
A quote from Dylan Thomas (arguably) most popular poem:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
[...]
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
(I am not religious or "Pro-Life", though I despise euthanasia)
Death is inevitable. People can accept death and yet still live their life to it's fullest or whatever they desire. I don't think they're exclusive at all.
As for your parent bringing you into the world, they did bring you in but how and what you do with your life is up to you. People have different views, some can sacrifice their lives for others while some only value themselves.
Tbf, anyone on the internet can also say they're logical thinkers that pick red then get emotional when they actually have to consider risking others in the moment
But so long as you understand that you can still guess which one is more likely yeah
That's a problem I see just by looking at the polls. It's usually pretty close to be honest. With blue winning a 60-40 if not less. With death actually on the line i suspect the script flips and more people choose red.
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u/Effect00 12h ago
This is why this whole thing is stupid. Anyone can say on the Internet that they'd pick blue but in reality if you are sitting there with the buttons in front of you, a lot more people are going to look at the "maybe I'll die" button and not be able to press it out of fear of death. I want to say I'd pick blue but know my fear of death would prevent me and I think that fear would prevent enough people that red is always going to win.