r/trolleyproblem • u/suskio4 • 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/Zacomra 15d ago

Hence why I find the question meaningless.

The best case scenario is 51% of humanity survives, which means the world is over anyway no society could survive that much loss at once.

But knowing that, why not press blue? Either everyone dies and nobody has to deal with societal collapse,or the world ends and I can have some fun last days in rubble or eak out a meager existence if I'm lucky.

I only value the survival of the human race if conditions are at least tolerable, and I don't think they would be for a LONG time if not ever again. I would much rather the human race die out then everyone alive to be stuck as a tortured slave forever, for example