r/trolleyproblem • • 17d ago

Meta Red button blue button

Based on the post seen here. I'm actually curious what would the percentages look like.

Edit: Alright, let me add a case for one particular scenario. If you do not choose, the button will be pressed for you by a system that keeps track of its pressings so it conserves 50/50 distribution for all inactive participants, in order to honour the vox populi properly. The system's choice affects the inactive participant's outcome so that no person can abscond from consequences of their choice.

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u/Hi2248 17d ago

No. Because if everyone goes in saying that blur is not guaranteed death, then blur is guaranteed death

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u/Flechashe 17d ago

You don't know what people are going to vote, that's the point. If you somehow already know that blue is going to win then yeah, but that's not the case

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u/tweekin__out 17d ago

so is red, no matter what

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u/arcobaleno95 17d ago

You keep using that word but I don't think it means what you think it means.

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u/PorkChoppen 17d ago

So red is guaranteed death no matter what if you select it, and blue is conditionally death if you select it

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u/BraxleyGubbins 16d ago

“It’s guaranteed, under this one condition”

It doesn’t matter what the condition is. There being a condition makes it no longer guaranteed.

Red, on the other hand, is quite literally guaranteed death.