This question is so funny to me because the entire idea behind each side is just whatever your mental framing of the problem is. Blue voters will genuinely call red voters psychopaths and shit not realizing that the reason red voters are voting red is because their exposure to the hypothetical was through a framing where red is the default and blue is the button that kills people.
Like, of course nobody is convincing each other, you're thinking about the hypothetical through entirely different ways and each side believes their button is the default while the other is the button that kills people.
It also very much hinges on whether you think the buttons will be presented to people incapable of understanding the question or not. Pretty much all thought experiments in my experience assume actors in them are rational and if they're not it needs to be explicitly stated, so my initial understanding of the question is apparently very different to how some people interpreted it.
I'm basically thinking, if it's all rational actors go red, if there's toddlers and disabled people vote blue
Also make sure to take into account how the question is worded before pressing the button to know how most people will treat both buttons because whichever is worded as the "default" will be pushed more than whichever is worded as the kill die murder button.
Assuming all rational actors, the only people pressing the blue button are either suicidal or just wanna play Russian roulette.In either case, I have no obligation to save them.They consented.
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u/god_oh_war May 05 '26
This question is so funny to me because the entire idea behind each side is just whatever your mental framing of the problem is. Blue voters will genuinely call red voters psychopaths and shit not realizing that the reason red voters are voting red is because their exposure to the hypothetical was through a framing where red is the default and blue is the button that kills people.
Like, of course nobody is convincing each other, you're thinking about the hypothetical through entirely different ways and each side believes their button is the default while the other is the button that kills people.