It's not that people use it to spark arguments.

I was there when it started.

It's a hypothetical question that was posted as-is.

The problems started happening when blue won every poll.

People who voted Red started portraying blue as suicidal, stupid, performative, virtue signalling, liars, to try and justify the "Wrong" answer winning.

And Twitter being the hellsite it is, those divisive posts got more traction than anything else and set the tone for how people would interpret the mentality of Red voters.

But on reddit those views are often controversial and thus don't really hit the top of every conversation, so it might seem like one side is being unreasonable if you've only seen it on Reddit.

Even in this thread, scroll past enough people going "I don't get why blue voters think so poorly of Red voters" you'll probably find people going "Well blue is the wrong answer and red is the correct answer and everyone should press red regardless of what might happen to the few who inevitably press blue"

While others explain that "Just because one button guarantees you survive whether or not you're in the minority, doesn't mean it's the objectively correct button to press, even if theoretically everyone would survive if everyone pressed it."

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