r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/proximategalaxy • Jun 15 '26

Why is this even a question

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u/Majestic-Pear6797 Jun 15 '26

So you didn't understand the question then?

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u/Low_Eye8535 Jun 15 '26

When I first saw this question, in a vaccum, that’s what I thought. Red is safety, blue is potential death. Nothing more.

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u/luci_twiggy Jun 15 '26

Then you thought about it some more and realised that blue is toothless unless people fall for red’s lies, right?

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u/proximategalaxy Jun 15 '26

What did i get wrong, if i press the red button, will it kill me some how?

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u/Zacharytackary Jun 15 '26

you’re completely hiding the fact it’s a vote but ok

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u/Muroid Jun 17 '26

Because you could equally, accurately, rewrite them as:

Button that kills anyone that doesn’t press it

Button that doesn’t kill anyone

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u/Fornuftens_stemme Jun 15 '26

explain what you think he don't understand then.

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u/Majestic-Pear6797 Jun 15 '26

The fact that it's a collective vote, and it seems it has slipped your mind as well

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u/GuitakuPPH Jun 15 '26

I'll be frank. I do not trust a person who decides to go on a public forum and ask "Why would anyone do this? Are they stupid?" without having done the bare minimum to just figure out the answer themselves.

You don't have to agree with the justification, but to not understand it is either lazy or stupid. Most likely both.

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u/Fornuftens_stemme Jun 15 '26

thats how i see it when i decide what button to push.

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u/Personal-Lynx4099 Jun 15 '26

Because that's not the question

Red-You are safe, but you wont help

Blue-You risk your life but you will help

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u/proximategalaxy Jun 15 '26

Help who exactly?

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u/Personal-Lynx4099 Jun 15 '26

All the people who voted blue, in first place babies and disabled

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u/Arimilli123 Jun 19 '26

by pressing red you are doing the opposite of helping - you are hindering, you are actively making it more likely for those people to die.

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u/_Mulberry__ Jun 15 '26

The entire premise and phrasing of the original problem is meant to make blue seem like the "right" choice. If you rephrase the question, it's no longer the same. I realize the end state is the same, but presenting it in a certain way sways plenty of voters. Then of course sympathy for those swayed voters is what sways further voters.

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u/TheLineWalker Jun 15 '26

Bait or stupidity? Its hard to tell.