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18 upvotes, 18 comments. Sidechat poll by Anonymous in OnlyPolls.
red 🔴
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Anonymous 6w

The question is intentionally worded to make the blue button sound like the moral choice. You could just reword the question like this. Press the red button and nothing happens, or press the blue button and you die(unless 50% of people also click this button)

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Anonymous 6w

wow

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Anonymous 6w

I think the key is that people are posed with the choice without being able to communicate first. A sudden choice, most people will pick blue. If people have time to discuss, I’m sure some gross groups will try to coordinate hitting red so they can eliminate demographics they don’t personally like

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Anonymous 6w

If you are currently one of the 41 people to press the red button, you want to watch the world burn.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

both choices can be logical, the question is more a dilemma than anything and gets at game theory

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

technically if everyone chose red everyone also survives. But blue also ensures survival for everyone

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 6w

Agree. It does contain framing

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6w

I mean blue isn’t instantly everyone’s first choice. And yeah the question is set up intentionally

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 6w

But the framing is part of the question on purpose. Even if you understand that picking red is the best choice to ensure both your survival and everyone else’s survival, understanding that most will pick blue should motivate you to do the same.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6w

Not necessarily. It’s not a given that most will pick blue. It happens to be the case in this poll here. And in that instant where you are asked to make that decision that’s not necessarily the immediate conclusion everyone would jump to

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6w

Unfortunately I don’t believe most people will pick blue, so I’m not gonna pick the “kill yourself” button

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 6w

The results from this poll, and the results from every other poll like it, say that you’re wrong.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6w

If most people will pick blue then picking red doesn’t really matter.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

Yeah but red isn’t guaranteed, if you pick that, you’re picking that either you or someone else dies. Blue everyone lives, red someone dies. So if you consciously choose red, that means you want to watch the world burn, because you’re throwing away someone’s life for no reason, other than you felt like choosing red.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

I’m not throwing away anyone’s life by picking red, they are throwing it away by picking blue

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

In game theory terms, the choice reflects beliefs about others’ behavior under uncertainty, not moral intent. There’s no binary reasoning here despite the fact that the choice is between two arbitrary colors. Not many secondary or tertiary conclusions can be drawn about intent and there is no direct line between reasoning/intent and outcomes here

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6w

First off this poll is only a small sample of the entire world population. Second off. I have seen polls where red is the majority so I stand by what I said

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 6w

If the world is majority red then it’s not a world I want to live in the first place

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