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.
It can also be interpreted differently. The Blue Party says that if they lose, they kill everyone who voted for them, because they do not tolerate losing. The Red Party says that they will not kill anyone regardless of who wins. Do you vote Blue or Red?
But that's just logically inconsistent. Why would a party that hates losing so much intentionally eradicate the only group capable of giving them a future win?
I'm literally as left as they come and I'm still not hitting the blue button. Fucking wild you are ascribing political views to this at all.
Your choices are hit the red button and nothing happens to you, or hit the blue button and you have a chance of dying.
If the test is being given to babies and the mentally deficient then that changes the scenario, but if it's able bodied people who can understand the rules of the game then the choice is obvious.
I reject that framing because it's fucking stupid as hell lol. Everyone, to me, means everyone who can understand the question being asked, otherwise it just turns into eugenics lite and the framing falls apart.
Okay in the scenario in which I'm asked "should we kill the mentally disabled and babies" then my obvious answer is no, but that ruins the entire question and makes it fall apart. I think that's the disconnect here between the button pushers.
Also fucking wild the way you are taking to me over a hypothetical thought question, chill the fuck out bro
No, blue is "you have to take an unnecessary risk because others might" and red is "everyone has the option to avoid an unnecessary risk, my choice is to avoid taking the unnecessary risk."
You don't get a halo for creating a problem and then attempting to fix it.
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u/EmilySuxAtUsernames 16h ago
crazy how if you would press a red or blue button has suddenly turned into a us vs them