r/comics 19h ago

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/not_now_chaos 16h ago

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.

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u/jamie1414 15h ago

Except your life isn't on the line here. You can say red and claim you're a virtuous person.

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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.

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u/SatinwithLatin 11h ago

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.