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@JimothyBurg1ary @theramblingfool thats the blue button
if nobody signed up for the military,
you wouldnt murder randoms, and we all live
but the fact that some people are in the military means they will die if you dont also join to prevent the tensions of war, keeping everyone alive
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@JimothyBurg1ary @theramblingfool so you value yourself over the potential life's of others?
interesting
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@theramblingfool (6) Parents in a world where young children are picking at random. One parent should press red. Otherwise you risk orphaning the red-pushing children.
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Every Pro-red argument:
(1) Cynicism: "It's impossible for blue to win. Don't be suicidal."
(2) Narcissism: "There is no downside to pressing red."
(3) Changing the hypo: "Babies don't count. That'd be stupid! So there's a blender..."
(4) Psychopathy: "Blue pressers deserve to die."
(5) General poor analytic reasoning: "If everyone just pressed red!"
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@Serdizzle @rawsmashmouth Well then the empathetic thing to do would be to have one parent—for instance—press blue and the other press red so a young child is cared for regardless of the outcome. Your take screams “I’m 15yo”
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@hashyboyz Um, no. Obviously then it’s blue. I’m pushing back only in your claim that red is necessarily a selfish choice.
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@marginalalpha and would you still choose red if you knew your all 4 of your children were picking blue?
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picking red is not the intelligent option, you will never get a 100% pick on either side. but you just need majority to pick blue. genuinely don’t get the argument for red outside of selfishness and that’s fine be selfish but don’t act like it’s the intelligent answer
ℏεsam@Hesamation
inventing a sacrifice nobody needs
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@Ludlowfnl @_ObjectiveTruth Ideally one parent would press red (to care for offspring who press red in the event of insufficient blue). But assume you’re a single parent and kids are voting 50/50. Your “correct” vote is not a clear answer, morally.
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@_ObjectiveTruth To save my kids, because in this scenario, they are voting
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You are a bad person if you press red. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
If you press red, you are condemning infants, toddlers, children/disabled people/ elderly people/etc. who didn’t read or comprehend it, to death.
You think you’ve “aha’d” all the blue pressers, but ultimately you are selfish, just like your choice of the red button
MrBeast@MrBeast
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.
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@hashyboyz You’re a single mom with 4 children and no family to speak of. Assuming only adults are “playing” you press red to ensure your young children are cared for. This isn’t hard.
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The only thing worth paying attention to in this obnoxious red vs. blue thought experiment is that the world is about to enter a period of genuine scarcity and you should be wary of the types who are willing to rationalize killing half of everyone they know for their own benefit.
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@kaileyinCA Being perplexed at how *anyone* could press red is such an immediate tell that OP is v young
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@kaileyinCA You’re a single mom with 4 children and no family to speak of. Assuming only adults are “playing” you press red to ensure your young children are cared for. This isn’t hard.
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@kaileyinCA Assuming children must also participate and will be vote 50/50:
- Blue: increase 2 kids’ odds by your one vote but w/ potential to kill the surviving young children (alone and helpless after your death)
- Red: ensures you are there for at least two surviving kids
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@xevekiah I’m just confused about how that “challenges everything people like to assume about women who make this choice.” It is perfectly aligned with their expectations that some people will choose to inflict pain on another—albeit brief—for their own benefit. What is this challenging?
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My abortion is the kind people love to judge the most. I wasn’t underage, I wasn’t assaulted, and there was no medical emergency. I got pregnant because I knowingly had unprotected sex, no accident, no rare failure, just my own choices.
By their standards, it was “irresponsible.” I knew abortion was an option, and I took it. Not because I couldn’t survive it or raise a child, I simply didn’t want one. I wanted sex without becoming a parent, and I chose not to carry the pregnancy.
There’s no redemption arc here. I don’t regret it. Nothing terrible happened to me afterward, no punishment, no downfall. My life is still good. And that reality alone challenges everything people like to assume about women who make this choice.
loid@Iveslueur
Everyone who supports abortion how would you feel if you were aborted ? Babies Lives Matter
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@EvieParkour People in cities have no idea how much taxpayer money is spent trying to convince people to grow them (us, but I’m not complaining about it) food 😂
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@EvieParkour This is so funny. You are not ready for prices that would result from cutting subsidies that are implemented to support your ability to afford groceries even after you decide to live in an unnaturally large population center that is too big to be supported by nearby farms.
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i want there to be a third button that kills the people who pressed the red button
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take 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?
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red is an unbelievably phenomenally disgustingly selfish decision and i do not have theory of mind for anyone who would choose it
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take 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?
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@questionableway @stainedhams no it also introduces uncertainty as to whether your button press will result in the color you intended
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@stainedhams it’s the same reason! just increases the likelihood that at least one person hits blue from virtual certainty to actual certainty
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if more than 50% of ppl press the blue button, everyone survives. if less than 50% of ppl press the blue button, only those who pressed the red button survive. the very first voter’s button glitches & registers a blue vote, though they intended red. which button would you press?
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@Ayiba_Benedict You’re kind of proving their point. High trust = everyone can be trusted to take care of themselves (i.e. no need to push the death button). Low trust = need mass coordinated safety nets to ensure everyone is bailed out of irrational decision making
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High trust society enthusiast when it's time to be trustworthy
vittorio@IterIntellectus
why would anyone even press blue?!?
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@olgakhazan prioritizing this early, especially in high-earning circles, disadvantages you socially. Lots of preference falsification until mid thirties when it’s nearly too late. I was treated as a teen mom when I had my first at 29. Definately a stigma, but can’t put finger on it.
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People who missed out on having babies because of "messages" you received. What were these messages? As someone who writes articles for a living I would love to go as viral as these seemingly very potent girlboss "messages!"
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