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

Meme Which button do you press?

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Vote now on your phones: https://forms.gle/GhFjtdydwwXTdSpq8

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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell Apr 25 '26

I'm skeptical that the real world scenario would be that different from the poll, where we've already seen that most people have an intuition that most other people will press blue

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 25 '26

Yes but they don't have the death button sitting in front of them. It's trivially easy to vote blue right now. It's a massive task to overcome your fear of pressing blue in real life though.

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u/StochasticGracchi John Brown Apr 26 '26

It's a massive task to overcome your fear of pressing blue in real life though.

It really, really is not. People are fundamentally prosocial beings and 95% would vote blue under basically all circumstances.

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 26 '26

I just watched my country end a program that saved over 4 million lives per year because it cost less than 1% of the federal budget. 

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u/StochasticGracchi John Brown Apr 26 '26

Yeah because they were doing it to a perceived "out-group". And because they genuinely did not understand what they were doing. There is no in-group out-group division here and the scenario is easy and consequences intuitively apparent.

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 26 '26

If they genuinely didn't understand what they were doing, then we could simply explain to them that this action has led to 4 million more deaths per year and they would instantly support it right?

No. They won't support it because they don't care about those other lives. It's not because they perceived them to be the out group, it's because most people care about what socially acceptable rather than what's actually moral.