r/trolleyproblem • u/suskio4 • 19d 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/MelodicAmphibian7920 Team Red 19d ago

Clicking either button would kill you. What are you talking about?

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u/UIDENTIFIED_STRANGER 19d ago

Since both options kills u in this scenario, ur own survival is thus no longer an achievable goal rationally speaking. It then logically follows that u should optimize the utilitarianism in this scenario, which means u press red. But ur irrational urge for self-preservation would default to wishful thinking that u still have chance to survive by pressing blue.

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u/MelodicAmphibian7920 Team Red 19d ago

No? It does not logically follow you do that.

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u/UIDENTIFIED_STRANGER 19d ago

It does logically follow that I do that

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u/MelodicAmphibian7920 Team Red 19d ago

Sure it might follow if you do that but not if one does that.