Discussion Blue vs red button

[LilGhost]

for those who dont know:

Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.

Also, if you want to ctb: if it wouldnt be for a quick way to die, would you still press blue?

My own opinion:
Blue. It is easier to convince 50% to cooperate then 100%. The question is about EVERYONE on earth. Which means infants, people with mental disabilities, children, very empathetic people and truly religious people - they all will vote. Infants will definitely "vote" by pressing random button. Not all people will read the question properly, Im pretty sure empathetic and truly religious people would not want to be someones reason of death, therefore will choose blue, so the chances 100% will choose red - are very very very slim. So it is easier to just press blue and coordinate with just 50%. I do not understand people who call those who choose blue "stupid" and saying "well thats natural selection". Like what kind of eugenics is that? People dying from diseases technically is "natural selection", but it is unhinged to justify people d eaths with that. I dunno. I just got so fu cking pissed by being called stupid on the internet, so i needed to write it here, cause Im to scared to write my opinion anywhere else and get bullied.
P.S. Im not pissed at people who chooses red, as i understand not all people are willing to risk their lives. Im pissed of at people who calls caring for other people is stupid

 

[jw_sisyphus97]

I appreciate the people who have done surveys to test what everyone believes. That allows us to guess at "correct" option based on everyone else's choices.

 

[Dejected 55]

Does everyone have to press a button? If so, how is that enforced? Is the voting invalid unless every person presses a button? IF there is no mechanism of control, then it isn't 50% of the people who can vote who need to press blue, but just 50% of the people who actually vote... which makes it a lower threshold than you might think because a lot of people will just not be bothered to vote at all.

But if you're playing the odds... pressing red makes more sense because as long as more people press red than blue then everyone who presses red lives... and you can't control what other people will do and a lot of contrarians will vote red.