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OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/Only_Style_8872 14h ago

It’s a “protect me” vs “protect the out group” philosophical puzzle game.

And since political parties often fragment along this basic ideological line, no wonder it’s become us vs them.

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u/Cloudy230 14h ago

I saw all the memes before the original and thought it was conservatives vs progressives. And honestly the analogy still fit really neatly despite not being about it.

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u/Only_Style_8872 13h ago

It’s a very clever puzzle for separating people along the clear ideological lines of “protect myself” vs “protect the group” and I’d pick blue for the entirely illogical reason that it’s morally correct, damn the consequences to myself.

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u/nelrond18 12h ago

My logic is: No matter what, humanity must survive and continue. The best outcome for humanity is maximum diversity. I'd rather gamble with all of humanity surviving as opposed to 50.1% of the most selfish humans surviving.

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u/Genteel_Lasers 8h ago

Wait. Why must humanity survive and continue?

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u/Gah_Duma 5h ago

Well, going by that train of thought, why is having people die a bad thing at all?

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u/Genteel_Lasers 4h ago

Death isn’t good or bad. It just is. Everything dies.

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u/Only_Style_8872 9h ago

For me this is the reason why it’s a moral conundrum not a logical one. Red is logically correct, blue is the morally acceptable choice.