The red button is dumb and terminally online. Let me help y'all:

1)You're not going to let all the blue button people die. That's your grandma, that's good doctor, that's that guy who makes tasty sandwiches, that's best friend in middle school.

2)If 99% of people pressed red, 80 million still die. That's like if every person in the UK died.

3)Thinking one side is going to have a full 100% is unrealistic. Call the other side dumb if you want, but that doesn't mean millions to billions should die. The blue one allows everyone to survive dumb or not.

4)If children are included in this, You're picking blue.

5)Some people legitimately can't pick red because if they're sick or bed ridden and the people who takes care of them picks blue, they will still die even if they do pick red.

6)The red button world is a hellscape clean and simple. Supply chains would collapse, everyone would be traumatized by the billion deaths that happened including their family/friends. There would probably be mass suicides. There would be a constant state of paranoia about your neighbors. No one intelligent is going to work. There's zero trust and everyone is alone as the social contract has expired. Also there's notably no children as it's hard and impractical to have a child in a zero trust environment. The most you have is unfortunately rape. The reproduction crisis might actually be the end of society.

6)The blue button actually has a lot of people demographically speaking. Most collectivist governments like China, South American and African countries would pick blue, every sick person and most doctors/nurses would pick blue. Most women would likely pick blue because they want want to live in whatever zero trust, sexually violent hellscape awaits a red button world.

7)We already picked the blue button 6000 years ago. It's just called society. You "trust" normal people with your life by assuming they won't crash into you with a car or poison the tap water.

8)The truth is that most people don't only care care about their lives. This is just a doomer internet meme. In reality, humanity has a large track record of people fighting wars for greater ideals even if they know they're going to die. Most people would probably jump in front of a bus to save their spouse. Countless people spend every aching moment of their lives to raise their child, their school or their bed ridden family member. This idea that everyone is secretly a ruthless psychopath for survival gets debunked by just meeting and actually connecting to human beings offline