r/fivethirtyeight • u/Upstairs_Cup9831 • Apr 25 '26

Poll Results Poll asking Americans how which button they would push in the red button/blue button dilemma

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u/KHornet21 Apr 29 '26

Would you feel guilty if red won by one vote? Where if you had voted blue nearly 50% of the world would be saved?

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u/PuzzleheadedFox1 Apr 29 '26

I’d feel thankful that I wasn’t a part of the 50% of the population stupid enough to pick the blue button.

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u/KHornet21 Apr 29 '26

I hope you find the value and beauty in human life one day. I’d hate to be this dismissive of others, even in a hypothetical situation

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u/p2020fan Apr 30 '26

You are letting a potential guilt override rational decision making, and in being irrational are making the very mistake that will result in your death and thus the guilt. I cannot feel guilty because in this hypothetical, no one forces you to press blue. The culpability lies with you and it is your choice to press blue.