Worldwide eternal Frankenstein living death slavery

thhis polll is nuts to me bc in 2020 during the portland wildfires and the pre vaccine era of the pandemic, i tried to sign up for a "mutual aid n95 giveaway" list, via my twitter account, and they banned me for having an anime girl pfp (it was rakka from haibane renmei) and having a locked account (i had a job and was closeted). i messaged them like "is there any way i can appeal this?" and they said "no" because apparently my anime girl icon and locked account meant i was either "fash or a creep or both." anyway they approved my roommates so they both got n95s but didn't share them with me. because i had an anime girl icon on twitter and didn't want my boss to find out i was trans.

Yes I have

It's an ethical optical illusion. The correct choice is red. Everyone would press red and has pressed red. But you know thst "risk yourself to save others" is the kind of answer you are supposed to give as a good and moral person, so people will bend over backwards and invent new elements to make it into the right answer. The social desirability bias will twist their brains up so that picking blue is a heroic moral stand expressing their faith in humanity. They'll say that since losing even 1% of the world would be so disruptive, we have an obligation to press blue to prevent it.

They say everyone has an obligation to press blue in order to save everyone, because some people will press blue recklessly. But they don't believe that logic holds. Nobody actually believes in endangering half of society in order to save the most reckless people in it. If they did, all of them would be as reckless as the most reckless people in society, because they'd be following them around everywhere! They'd hear the national weather service announce a tornado warning that said to stay inside, and would immediately drive outside to try and rescue the people who were too reckless to stay inside.

there is absolutely nothing that is ethically complicated about not endangering yourself to save the most reckless people in the world. period. no ambiguity. if the most reckless people in the world pushed the Commit Suicide Button the proper response is "wow, they really should not have done that" the way you react to literally every other instance of suicidal recklessness.

in fact, you can remove the red button and literally nothing changes! the red button does nothing in the scenario. so the scenario actually is "a man walks up to you and, after determining you can understand the offer, presents a blue button that, if pushed, will kill you unless more than 50% of people total pushed the button. you can also just, like, leave." this scenario is identical in every way and yet the answer is even more screamingly obvious.

That’s besides the real point which is that there are plenty of people I know who I do think are likely to choose blue. I don’t want them to die and studies on this question indicates that blue has decent odds of winning so therefore I should choose blue.

The thing that makes it worse is that they really believe they're being self-sacrificing. You aren't running into a tornado to save people who recklessly stayed outside, you're running into a tornado to save people who ran into a tornado to save people. The only way to save everyone is for everyone to run into the tornado!

Compare OSHA. If everyone just does what's best for themselves, then a tiny fraction will die and the rest will live. If everyone follows the plan, then nobody will die.

All that being said, I would press the red button. I would not, in fact, run into a tornado to save someone who ran into a tornado to save someone.

However, I would like to point out that the reason pushing blue is intuitive is because all of our ancestors who would have pushed red in a real situation died out a long time ago. Saving yourself is not selected for by evolution. Charging into the enemy, massacring them in the rout, and taking their women for yourself is what was selected for.

Genghis Khan is the ancestor of 0.5% of the population of the world because he would have pressed blue. Pressing blue isn't a moral decision, it's what you do when you see the people in the front line charging and decide to follow them into either life or death. Whichever side has more blue-pressers will enslave the losers and the descendants of the blue-pressers will inherit the Earth.

The blue button is the charge button. Charge into the tornado to support those who charged in before you. People resist red because it resembles cowardice, and people hate cowardice because it was selected against in the ancestral environment.

The risk is existential. The burning building is theoretical. And a significant portion of the people who state they would pick blue? Do so specifically because they say they don't want to have blood on their hands.

You cannot argue the red button is the position of moral cowardice when the blue button is the one of intentional inaction.

Psalms 94:12-15

Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord,

the one you teach from your law;

you grant them relief from days of trouble,

till a pit is dug for the wicked.

For the Lord will not reject his people;

he will never forsake his inheritance.

Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,

and all the upright in heart will follow it.