
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
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.
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