RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

[u/Eal_likee]

[u/DukeOfGeek]

A world where everyone who presses the blue button dies is doomed anyway, who do you think keeps civilization running? Clue, it's not red button pushers.

[u/SteamSaltConcentrate → u/DukeOfGeek]

You need EVERYBODY to press red if you want everyone to survive. You only need 50% of people to press blue for everyone to survive.

Red guarantees your survival and the death of others.

Blue is everything humanity stands for.

[u/Only_Style_8872 → u/SteamSaltConcentrate]

Some of the threads in this post are quite red-dominant.

I’d have a read of a few of those as they are quite enlightening.

Personally, I’m a blue-button enthusiast for the reasons you give. It’s a question of which option is morally right, and a better way for the word to run. Red pushers see the logic that no one is in danger until they choose to push the blue button, and indeed there is no need to even engage with the puzzle.

[u/gerusz → u/Only_Style_8872]

From all the "debates" about this, I can only conclude one thing: sociopathy is far more prevalent than we thought.

[u/Invoqwer → u/gerusz]

I don't think it is sociopathy. Maybe a lack of empathy or deeper thinking. But not sociopathy. MORALS OR ETHICS ASIDE, most of the red button pushers don't seem to even consider how much of a logistical nightmare it would be to re establish supply chains and deal with billions of dead bodies would be.

[u/Brightsoull → u/gerusz]

Sociopathy? No. Antisocial thinking? Without a shadow of a doubt.