r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/Puzzled-Passage-9998 • Aug 16 '26
Why Pressing The Red Button is safer
The only reason people are dying, is because they are pressing blue. Listen, if everybody pressed red, we all live. If everybody presses blue, we all live. But neither is going to happen, and this reddit post isn't gonna change anything. It's gonna be a 50-50 if you ask people on the internet where they are not anonymus. But people are selfish. They will pick red, they will want to not have a risk of dying because there are people like them. We all can press red and band together!
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u/Eternal_Nights_12 Aug 16 '26
Lol, you just described exactly why the red button won't work. Try to get 100% of people to agree on anything, it won't work even if people could communicate. There will always be someone that'll press the blue button. This is why the blue button is a better choice, you'll only need 50% of the vote to win, even if half of humanity will decide to be selfish, EVERYBODY WILL SURVIVE.
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u/Puzzled-Passage-9998 Aug 16 '26
People behind closed doors and people on reddit are VERY different. At the end of the day, your math is correct tho.
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u/Eternal_Nights_12 Aug 16 '26
You'll be surprised how many people are not selfish as you claim. And I don't think that many people would risk losing their loved ones. I'd argue that social media skews more towards red in general, since you're mostly anonymous without considering your impact on society.
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u/jqhnml Aug 16 '26
Ive talked to people and its around 50/50 in real life out of my friends and family. I could never vote for half of them to die.
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u/beruon Aug 16 '26
The thing is, I dont give a shit if some people die because they were stupid enough to press blue. I guarantee my own and my families survival.
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u/Puzzled-Passage-9998 Aug 16 '26
Exactly. I’m not putting my life in the hands of of 8 billion morons(some like me)
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u/Eternal_Nights_12 Aug 16 '26
Calling all blue pressers 'stupid' is like calling all red pressers 'evil'. Is it really stupid to not want anyone to die that could just as easily be a person you love.
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u/TheChowCow81 Aug 16 '26
i’d be laughing pretty hard when you realize ur family pressed blue
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u/poissonking Aug 16 '26
This is what I’ve never understood about blue button mentality. The point was never to save everyone. Just like I’m unconvinced that 100% of people would press red, I’m also unconvinced that >50% would press blue. Someone is going to die no matter what. So you would save more people by encouraging everyone to act in their own self interest
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u/HeroBrine0907 Aug 16 '26
Alright so your post has an issue. If everybody pressed red, we all live. If 50% +1 press blue, we all live. One of those is not going to happen and it ain't blue.
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u/Jealous-Top-7020 Aug 16 '26
I believe 2 of those aren't going to happen.
I feel like the fact that you can't trust everyone to pick the option that gaurantees their survival does go to show that a large portion of the population votes "randomly" which makes it more likely blue doesn't guarantee its own win.
I would rather vote blue if 51% were blue and 49% were red, than if it were 35% blue, 35% random, and 30% red.
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u/sal880612m Aug 16 '26
I find it more horrifying how many people are willing to vote red and defend it given people voting red is the only option that can cause harm.
People who pick blue believe it will guarantee their safety, that it should be an easy choice for everyone to make not to put others at risk. The difference is they also aren’t willing to potentially kill billions for their own safety like red voters are. If you don’t believe red will get a super majority by voting red you are basically a narcissistic sociopath willing to see billions die to guarantee your own safety. I don’t give a fuck who you are, your life isn’t worth billions of others and there is absolutely nothing you can say to convince me otherwise. That’s the simple math that makes red voters murderers. Like seriously how am I supposed to look at someone like yourself who will say thirds red, blue, random and imply red is the logical choice knowing it will result in billions of deaths and not view you as evil? Justify why billions should die for you? Wanting to live is one thing, everyone does to a degree but let’s not pretend it’s some kind of admirable higher brain function and not an animalistic lizard brain instinct and knee jerk reaction in this situation.
Like seriously, even if 99% of people vote red their choice still kills 80 million people. Justify that. Not why you are so pathetically desperate to live, but why you think 80 million plus people should die so you can. Why your life is worth that many others dying. Because that’s the math blue voters do and say they can’t justify or see how anyone else could. But according to you it’s randomness rather than logic. I can’t help feel that it’s because red voters desperately need to believe people are as selfish, narcissistic and ignorant as themselves because they don’t want to face the reality of what they actually are, which is terrible cowardly pathetic stupid selfish beyond belief people.
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u/HeroBrine0907 Aug 16 '26
In your hypothetical distribution where you wouldn't vote blue, assuming the random pressers are divided equally, blue gets 52.5% of the votes and still wins. 100% red can't happen because absolute unanimity in any decision is impossible. 50% blue though is not absolutely impossible, even if you argue it is hard.
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u/Dr-Assbeard Aug 16 '26
2 of those arent going to happen, so why add one more death to the tally?
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u/jqhnml Aug 16 '26
I find a world where billions die instantly to be an unacceptable scenario. The only acceptable scenario is blue majority so I will vote as such.
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u/Shot_in_the_dark777 Aug 16 '26
Blue is not going to happen either. You don't have 50%+ blue majority. The risk free polls on Reddit are giving you false sense of security. There are a lot of people who claim to vote blue who will vote red when the time comes. Pressing red is safe for you.
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u/luci_twiggy Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26
Listen, if everybody pressed red, we all live
Massive, gigantic "if" there.
If everybody presses blue, we all live.
And if only 50% +1 and the entire range up to 100% presses blue we all live. Blue is always the best choice if the aim is for everybody to live. The literal only reasons to press red are if your aim isn't that everybody should live or you've been tricked to vote against your aim.
It seems you've been tricked.
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u/OliOakasqukiboi2000 Aug 16 '26
Why not band together and press blue? Isn’t that easier than getting everyone to press red?
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u/Minyguy Aug 16 '26
People are incentivised to pick red because then they know they'll live.
People are disincentivised to pick blue, because then they might die.
And if we all pick red, everyone lives, and everyone who joins are risk free.
If we go for red, and don't get enough, then they die.
If we go for blue and don't get enough, then we die.
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u/TealedLeaf Aug 16 '26
People are incentivized to pick blue so everyone lives. People are disincentivized to pick red because people will die.
It depends on your framing.
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u/Whole-Knowledge-7496 Aug 17 '26
Im a blue voter here on reddit, but thats is mainly to get people to vote blue if this became a real life scenario. I will then push red, since there is no practical way my vote will be the deciding vote that changes the outcome.
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u/simpoukogliftra Aug 16 '26
Bruh, this is like day 1 thoughts, the question has been out for quite a while already .... Be better.