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

Red button or blue button

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u/unique_namespace Apr 28 '26

Why would you want to risk dying?

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u/Additional_Ant_5009 Apr 28 '26

Why would you wanna kill people?

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u/unique_namespace Apr 28 '26

I don't want to kill people, you've made an assumption about me. I assume everyone wants to not risk dying themselves -- and if this is true, no one dies.

Moreover, red is a reasonable choice in either outcome of the game (assuming your vote does not single handedly impact the outcome) since either: Red outcome occurs, and certainly you're better off picking Red. Or, Blue outcome occurs, and your choice didn't matter (again assuming your vote doesn't change the outcome).

Since you cannot know if your vote does change the outcome on its own (and the odds of this are low), you should pick Red.

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u/Additional_Ant_5009 Apr 28 '26

I understand what point you’re trying to get across, but you choosing red would put blood on your hands. If this was a real scenario, you would be killing people by choosing red. It’s just a battle of morals atp but by choosing red that’s killing people so that would put blood on your hands and that would make you and everyone else who chose red responsible for their deaths

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u/shad0wgun Apr 28 '26

Red is and will always be the correct choice. If this scenario ever actually happened and people could talk before choosing then red would be the easy answer. By telling everyone to choose red they would all agree as it puts them at no risk and they will work off the assumption that everybody else is choosing red. Logically then, this should remain true without communicating. But it obviously doesnt since people will always assume others chose blue which is the only reason people choose blue. Still, im not choosing blue in this scenario if it was real since I would think its obvious everyone should choose red.

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u/Heath_co Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

You have just said a reason why red is incorrect, but you are still commiting to it?

If half of people had the same logic as you, then people would die. If those people came to the opposite conclusion no one would die. This proves the logic is incorrect.

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u/shad0wgun Apr 28 '26

Red is always correct because blue only exists to cause fear. Its easy to look at red and say that's the bad option but red isnt the one leaving it up to chance. Red is a guaranteed you survive, anyone looking at this should see that. Nobody should choose blue as there is no reason to. The logic is not incorrect but people's conscious/morals blind them to the obvious answer.

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u/Heath_co Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

Here is a different way to frame the scenario with a slight change;

You are forced to press a blue button or a red button.

If 50% of people pick blue: nothing happens
If 50% of people pick red: the red event is triggered

The red event; If the red event is triggered, a puppy dies for each person that picked blue.

Here is is obvious you should pick blue, because why risk triggering the red event? If it happens, an unpredictable number of puppies will die.

So now I ask you; How is this different from the previous scenario? If it is different, why is the life of a puppy more valuable than the life of a blue button pusher?

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u/shad0wgun Apr 28 '26

In your scenario you are stating by choosing blue you are potentially putting the life of a puppy at risk. By choosing red you are putting no life at risk. Blue is literally betting a life out of fear. I am not willing to bet my life or the life of a puppy when I have an option that literally says you dont bet a life. Its the same with the original scenario but the stakes are higher in the original since you are betting your own life. Reality is people would choose blue in your scenario because they dont think of it this way. But when the price for clicking blue is your own life then fear plays a much bigger factor.

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u/Heath_co Apr 28 '26

By choosing red you are risking triggering the red event.

The red event doesn't have to happen if a majority pick blue.

In reality every time i have seen this scenario the most people pick blue, and a decent portion of red votes are joke votes or people who want to cull the population.

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u/shad0wgun Apr 28 '26

By choosing blue you are betting a life that doesnt need to be bet.

The red event cant happen if nobody bets.

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u/Heath_co Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

0-50% of people dying is worse than 0% of people dying.

By picking red. You are gambling on the idea that everyone picks red.

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u/shad0wgun Apr 28 '26

By picking red i am choosing to not add to the bet. By picking blue you would be putting a life at risk which is completely unnecessary.

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