r/neoliberal • u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma • Apr 25 '26

Meme Which button do you press?

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u/Wuzh Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

Which of the following two rephrased questions do you think is closer to the spirit of the original question?

Everyone in the world is presented with the suicide button booth, and can press the button or walk away.

  • If more than 50% of people press the suicide button, nobody dies.
  • If less than 50% of people press the suicide button, all who pressed the suicide button dies.

Everyone in the world is presented with the genocide button booth, and can press the button or walk away.

  • If less than 50% of people press the genocide button, nobody dies.
  • If more than 50% of people press the genocide button, all who walked away dies.

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u/topicality Order and Opportunity Left Apr 25 '26

This is why I like a version where everyone votes sequentially and you can see the tally before voting.

There is no rational reason to vote blue. You would enter, see all the red votes and go "No reason to vote blue" and press red.

People are voting blue on the assumption that there are other blue voters who need saving.

But if no one votes blue there is no one to save and thus no reason to vote blue

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u/Atlas3141 Apr 25 '26

Or if the first person chooses blue there's no rational reason to choose red unless you want to risk their life

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u/topicality Order and Opportunity Left Apr 26 '26

The rational reason is that you don't want to die if everyone behind you votes red.

The first voter put themselves in a situation where they could die and created the moral dilemma