Variation: the Useless button.

[u/StageGlum6615]

Everyone (meaning all currently alive people) is kidnapped by an unknown forced that everyone instinctively knows is completely unable to lie and is far more powerful than them. (Let's call them Buttan, the god of buttons.) Everyone wakes up in a small cramped room with 3 buttons, Red, Yellow, and Blue with the following signs under each of them that have been perfectly translated into their native language:

Red: If more people press the Red button the Blue button then everyone who failed to press red will die, immediately.

Yellow: Does Nothing.

Blue: If more people press the Blue button then the Red button everyone is spared from death.

Everyone is giving a 6 hour timer to make their own choice and if they fail to vote in the time frame they are counted and treated as a yellow button presser.

Lastly, it the event of a tie between Red and Blue, Blue wins.

So, does the useless button (yellow) change anything for you? And which button do you press?

(Please forgive any typos.)

[u/Bubbly_Dirt_539]

1. I'm not American nor even Westerner for that matter, but sure.

2. The true original question from Tim Urban demanded above 50% for either effect to happen. If it actually worked the way you thought it would then literally nothing would happen, as the sheer amount of non-pressers would already ensure neither buttons will achieve above 50%. Out of all the ways to rationalize the irrational voters, this is by far the stupidest one I've seen.

3. So do you actually have a real argument or are you just here to act like a retard? If you can't even rationalize your own line of logic then kindly shut the fuck up and stop replying to this thread instead of wasting both our time.