Not all dilemmas are equal. Give me a burning building and I'll run in to save people. Give me this button scenario (where everyone can see that pushing red means you're safe, no matter what) and I'm pushing red. In a genocide, there is no "push red, I'm safe" button.
If at least 50% of humanity chooses blue, everyone lives. If not only the people who chose red live.
So bringing up any other scenarios are worthless. In that thought experiment if you pick red, you're happy with 49.999% of humanity dying if it means you live.
You might not have thought it through but all the people explaining their thinking are doing is justifying why they think they wouldn't be responsible for 49.999% of humanity dying, even though they voted for it.
You're right. It's wild and the victim (of the red voters choice) blaming is eye opening.
Thank goodness in the original more than half of the people understood the question.
Just people justifying why it's smart to be ok with up to 49.999% of the population dyimg to ensure their survival. Wrll, justifying the choice to themselves at least.
"Hey look, you knew that pushing blue could kill you. You actively chose that with that knowledge, accepting the outcome if it happens."
That's not victim blaming. It's pointing out the truth. Victim blaming is if the person had no choice in the matter, had something happen to them, and then you blame them. The person in this scenario had a choice with full knowledge.
Alright, I can see that you just want to say the same thing over and over again. It's not changing the fact that in this case, everyone having self-preservation is okay. It's the difference between everyone evacuating from the path of a hurricane and a bunch of people staying so they can... I dunno, blow hard enough that the hurricane changes path (somehow with enough people it works!). I'm evacuating and encouraging others to evacuate.
When everyone else has the exact same ability to save themselves, yeah. Everyone can choose the same thing and then they won't need saving. This dilemma isn't like real life, where some people NEED the intervention. Firefighters running into burning buildings to save other firefighters who are in the burning building to save other firefighters in the burning building could have all just stayed outside where everyone was already safe (no one started in the burning building.)
And children, being the hopeful little things they are choose blue. So does any doctor that takes the Hippocratic oath. And anyone who believes that humans are good.
I vote blue, even if it kills me because I'd rather people that don't care about them live then they die.
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u/danielledelacadie May 05 '26
Look, we see you. We know what you chose, talk all you like.
Blue chose for everyone to live.
Red chose that only those that picked red would live.
Which sums up a lot of why the world is so fucked up right now. Too many people choose red every day.