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Is this repeated or one time?

Can you force people on red or not?

Seems difficult to guarantee you don't kill a bunch of kids each button press cycle...

Many people aren't old and developed enough to reason it out yet...

If this is repeated I'd certainly be on the team of trying to convince people to go blue... Otherwise the chance of someone randomly pressing red every time before they get to the age of 5 or whatever seems too low to guarantee the long term survival of the species... I guess it depends on how often it happens?

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> Is this repeated or one time?

I think it's meant to be one time.

> Seems difficult to guarantee you don't kill a bunch of kids each button press cycle...

Seems extremely easy to guarantee that I don't kill a bunch of kids, just press blue. It's only the red-pressers who might end up murdering kids. By pressing blue the only person I am putting at risk is myself.

If someone has parents and kids themselves should they convince them to press blue as well?

I'd say so, I think encouraging your family to act morally (not murder people) is a good thing.

If you’d tell your kids to push blue and risk their lives, you’re not empathetic, you’re something else. More like one of those suicide cult leaders willing to sacrifice kids for an idea.

Teaching kids not to participate in a conspiracy to commit mass murder of innocent people in order to increase their odds of survival is not at all like teaching them to commit suicide.

Even kids aren't entitled to murder innocent people because it's personally beneficial.

Risking your own kids' lives to save the lives of strangers is psychotic.

No one is saving anyone, we are simply not participating in the conspiracy to murder people.

Thinking your kids will be ok after you tell them to become mass murderers is the psychotic bit.

Folks pushing red aren't "murdering" anyone. Words have meaning!

Yes, they do. And killing other people by taking an affirmative action that you know is likely to result in the death of others, with indifference as to whether or not they die, is murder.

There are exceptions. The closest is self defense (the use of reasonable force against the perpetrator of violence), it simply doesn't apply here because the people you are advocating for the murder of are not the perpetrators of any violence.

While we are talking about words having meaning, "suicide" has meaning, and it does not include "choosing not murdering people to avoid being murdered".

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