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AIBU to wonder which button people would press to survive?

213 replies

Boxingshibes · 09/05/2026 19:11

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?

Red or blue
Red- aibu
Blue-ainbu

OP posts:
Agix · 09/05/2026 19:32

Red, and hope everyone else's presses red too. You'd have to be pretty dumb to press blue... There's no reason to press blue when everyone can just press red and still survive.

NormasArse · 09/05/2026 19:32

I suppose it’s assuming that not everyone in the world has access to the button. So a village of indigenous people in a far flung land could only survive if people pressed blue?

Although reading it again, it does say ‘everyone on earth…’.

PandaCwtch · 09/05/2026 19:31

Red. There's no incentive not to. If everyone presses red, everyone lives. You can't trust other people to collectively press blue. Blue pushers are the only ones who stand to lose anything at all.

TheGirlWhoLived · 09/05/2026 19:29

The only option here is to press red. This is the new TikTok trend that my kids were telling me about. For self preservation you press red, and you tell everyone around you to do the same. Why oh why would anyone press blue when we could all save ourselves?

icepop2 · 09/05/2026 19:27

Red because that way I survive. I can't predict other people's behaviour, I can only do what's best for me - and I assume everyone else would do the same.

ultracynic · 09/05/2026 19:27

My initial thought was blue, because of course I’d want everyone to survive, and the red button people are probably more mercenary and not who I’d want to survive with…

… but, reds survive regardless, so it’d be stupid to press blue, no?

Original poster
Boxingshibes · 09/05/2026 19:22

Sorry forgot to post my vote.
Id like to think I'd press blue. But I don't know.

OP posts:
Sober23 · 09/05/2026 19:21

What a ridiculous question 🙄

whattheysay · 09/05/2026 19:20

I’d press red. Well, I would actually press blue so that everyone would survive but I would bet that not enough people would press blue so I would press red

Eskarina1 · 09/05/2026 19:16

Unless you could game it as above and convince everyone to press red, I'd press blue. I have to live with myself and I couldn't if I did that. I also don't want to live in a world made just of red button pushers.

Merryoldgoat · 09/05/2026 19:15

Why wouldn’t you press red?

MyWildOliveGoose · 09/05/2026 19:14

Surely it would make more sense for everyone to press the red button. I would be.

WhatAMarvelousTune · 09/05/2026 19:13

Everyone should press red. Then everybody is guaranteed to survive, and they know that from the moment they press the button.
No one would have any incentive to not do it, so you aren’t hoping that enough people press blue that you all survive.

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