Would you press the Red Button or Blue Button?

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Would you press the Red Button or Blue Button?

  • Blue

    Votes: 22 17.1%

  • Red

    Votes: 107 82.9%
  • Total voters
    129
I wonder how many of the blue button pushers would actually push the blue button if it was real? It's easy to say you'll risk your life when it's an abstract notion, but once it becomes a very immediate real threat people have a tendancy to get scared.

If this question was suddenly plopped in front of people they would have to contend with their actual potential death. There are many, many documented cases of people talking up a big game about how they will be a hero and save others but when it comes down to it they end up getting scared and running off.

It's like that Renee Goode thing. In retrospect it was an avoidable death but in the actual moment it would be difficult to make the right choice.
 
This is a boring question now. Better question, how do you press the red button? I'm going to fore head slam it
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Hypercop said:
The pure irony that so many people ITT who pressed red have probably complained about the west becoming a low trust society
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You've completely misunderstood what a high trust vs. low trust society means. It's about trustworthiness. It's not about whether you do or don't trust your neighbors, it's about whether you are right to trust them. Trust, by itself, is not a virtue.

We have become a low trust society because we have invited mass amounts of untrustworthy people into our midst. The solution is not to start trusting them. The solution is to remove them, so that we are surrounded by people that we can and should trust.
 
Hypercop said:
The pure irony that so many people ITT who pressed red have probably complained about the west becoming a low trust society
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I think you'd find a lot of generous red button pushers, but your blue brain, high on virtue signalling, isn't really in the business of pro-social actions, just the appearance of them.
I return the shopping cart. It's just this example has no upside and it statistically makes no sense for us. You can probably find plenty of red button pushers who donate their time or labor to charity, or help their friends and family.

Incentive structures allow cooperation to happen across society while not needing people to give up things. People voluntarily go to work in order to get paid. It doesn't matter if you are "greedy" because you want the paycheck or because you "just want to help out".

It also makes no sense to think a red button pusher is automatically a psychopath thief. If someone has a farm stand out front with eggs and you can leave some money on the honor system, we aren't going to steal the eggs just because we can. Not only is it morally wrong, but it damages your neighbor who then may be more likely to no longer sell eggs out there. If you find a security flaw in a program maybe you email the dev and tell him how to fix it instead of exploiting it to fuck shit up, steal, etc to embarass him to fix it. So I just don't think your idea of "red" = low trust is accurate in any way shape or form. Its not an elitism thing either. Plenty of us red pushers probably have written tutorials for people who dont have as much knowledge as we do, or maybe are a little slower or havnt learned stuff yet. I think most kids down to age 5 will still push red because kids are smarter than people give them credit for.

And I think most blues are getting hung up on "think of the children"
 
Simple - the green button since this is a VERY shit metaphor for US elections. Either color side of the same shit coin is not the solution that requires an entirely different coin.
 
TheTitKoker said:
Simple - the green button since this is a VERY shit metaphor for US elections. Either color side of the same shit coin is not the solution that requires an entirely different coin.
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Well it seems to me everybody got the metaphor backwards..

Repubs win: Everybody lives, the only genocide is that of not using preferred pronouns

Dems win: all Drumph Nazis go in reeducation camps and their assets are confiscated in the name of equity and justice

Vote D if you want to live
 
Calandrino said:
Well it seems to me everybody got the metaphor backwards..

Repubs win: Everybody lives, the only genocide is that of not using preferred pronouns

Dems win: all Drumph Nazis go in reeducation camps and their assets are confiscated in the name of equity and justice

Vote D if you want to live
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Last I checked voting is technically anonymous, but it can be broken down by district.

So think of it like this: if Republicans win, everyone lives. If Democrats win, all districts that mostly voted Republican die, even if they only voted Republican by 50%+1. You might vote D, but if your district voted R then you die if D wins.
 
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