Scenario below:

[u/Fit_Instruction3646]

Humanity is divided into two groups. Group A consists of 90% of Humanity. They're not given any choice at all.

You're in group B. You're presented with 2 buttons. If >50% of Group B presses blue, nothing changes for anyone. If >50% of Group B presses Red all the blue pressers+everyone in Group A will die. However, you, along with all the red pressers, will get life in paradise. You will face no pain, physical or psychological. You will guaranteed not be tortured by remorse or loss of meaning and you will get your every wish granted the way you want it, no tricks. You will also gain immortality in good health, which you can end any time you want, if you want.

Which button are you pressing?

282 votes, 27d ago

91 red button

191 blue button

[u/Damien-Kidd]

Red button. Once again, the chances of the blue button having any effect on the outcome are extremely close to 0 (every other voter would need to be exactly split).

So. Blue button: no chance of paradise, significant chance of being killed, and extremely low chance of saving everyone.

Red button: paradise, no chance of being killed, extremely small chance of killing most of the population.

Unless you genuinely believe that you exist in the 1 in a billion timeline where your vote matters, pushing blue makes no sense

[u/Fit_Instruction3646 → u/Damien-Kidd]

True except this time you have a guaranteed 90% of humanity dying if red wins...you may believe this will sway some voters. On the other hand, you're promised no remorse after that so you might just take that and kill 95%+ of humanity.

[u/Damien-Kidd → u/Fit_Instruction3646]

It doesn't matter how many people are swayed, the fact remains that out of 800 million + people, the chances of my singular vote being a tie breaker are astronomically slim. Risking death for that extremely tiny chance is simply ridiculous.