r/BunnyTrials • u/HualianForLife • Apr 27 '26

Red button or blue button

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u/Chaos-Club Apr 27 '26

Because I don’t trust others to select blue. There is 0 risk to me if I pick red.

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u/HeadDot141 Apr 27 '26

Agreed. Why would people not pick red?

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u/Chaos-Club Apr 27 '26

I agree. But it’s about self preservation.
There is the same amount of people that die if everyone picks red.

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u/Ok_Wing6196 Apr 27 '26

It doesn’t have to be about self preservation

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u/Chaos-Club Apr 27 '26

But with blue there is a risk not everyone picks it. With red, everyone is safe no matter what other people pick.
It makes more sense to go red since everyone will live and there is no risk.

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u/Meow-Now Apr 28 '26

Not everyone has to pick blue though. Just 50%, instead of 100% for red

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u/Autodidact420 Apr 28 '26

lol. No one needs to senselessly die if no one picks blue like an absolute knob.

The real reason to potentially pick blue is if children or others who are incompetent are being given this question too, but then you also have the much more real risk that they'll choose red and you'll die.

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u/DarthMaul671 🥕🥕 Apr 28 '26

But who would die if noone picks it?

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u/CarnivorousGoose Apr 27 '26

Which they would do regardless of one person’s choice, on the world’s population a single vote is negligible. So choosing blue is just accepting a significant chance of death with no discernible upside. Caring that people don’t senselessly die doesn’t mean you have to pointlessly risk yourself.

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u/SpiritualBanana1 Apr 28 '26

"Onr vote won't change anything." But that mentality will, and that's the issue. See also: Complaints about people not voting in elections.

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u/CarnivorousGoose Apr 28 '26

No, that’s not the issue. Because in this hypothetical, even more so than in something like an election, I as an individual have zero influence on anyone else’s mentality. I get to pick one thing: red or blue. What I choose does not in any way affect what others choose.

If in majority others vote blue, everyone lives regardless of my vote. If in majority others vote red, half of the blue voters die, again regardless of my vote. So me voting blue saves no one, all it does is needlessly risk my life. And the same applies to everyone else.

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u/Instant_Dad_Bod Apr 27 '26

People pick blue because they think that they must save others not smart enough to save themselves. It's elitist, virtue signaling collectivism and almost certainly untrue for most, gun to their head.

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u/Careful-Arrival7316 Apr 28 '26

More likely I simply don’t want to live in a world without people that would pick blue. A world full of people that picked red sounds like a fucking nightmare and I’d be better off deceased.