Question stolen from Twitter:
Everyone in the world has to take 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?
Morality or not, we've got two choices here: the "everyone who presses this button lives" button, and the "if I press this button there's a chance I die" button.
Literally everyone should press the red button. There should be ad campaigns about how much the red button ought to be the one you press. Pamphlets. Planes in the sky should write messages. Because every red button is a choice to live.
"My people would press the blue button because it makes us better people!" Great, but your community is in the minority and will not win the vote.
The only reason to press the blue button is you think someone else is stupid enough to press the blue button and you want to try to protect them from themselves, but then you become one of them. God sent you a speedboat, a helicopter, and a ship and you chose to drown.
Literally everyone should press the red button. There should be ad campaigns about how much the red button ought to be the one you press. Pamphlets. Planes in the sky should write messages. Because every red button is a choice to live.
"My people would press the blue button because it makes us better people!" Great, but your community is in the minority and will not win the vote.
The only reason to press the blue button is you think someone else is stupid enough to press the blue button and you want to try to protect them from themselves, but then you become one of them. God sent you a speedboat, a helicopter, and a ship and you chose to drown.
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"a society can only work in a world where half of people [expect everyone else to save them at great risk to themselves and for no discernible benefit]"
@monsterislandcolonizer @sj_zero
YES!
In safe society, a kid can play outside unsurpervised, since you know others will be willing to sacrefice themselves to help if anything happened to them.
In an unsafe society where everyone saves themselves, a kid cannot go outside alone.
That is the difference. (BTW, I had no idea just how bad of a place America was, until I learned, that "just walking outside" is considered suspicious)
"in a safe society" is doing a LOT of work here
Also, there are many "unsafe" societies where children still go outside alone so "can kids play outside unsupervised" isn't a useful metric.
Also, there are many "unsafe" societies where children still go outside alone so "can kids play outside unsupervised" isn't a useful metric.
We live in a society full of people who press the blue button assuming everyone else will bail them out for their choice and thus be dragged down with them.
To live in a society of red button pressers is to live in a society where individuals take responsibility for their own well-being first and foremost, and more importantly not burden others with the risk of their existence. It's selfish to demand others put themselves at risk to validate you, when everyone could be just fine if they just make the obvious choice and protect themselves.
Morally speaking, forcing others to consider pressing blue and potentially dying just to save you is a sort of moral vanity. You press blue because it feels nice to press blue, but insodoing you perpetuate a potentially lethal plague, for no other reason than you think others might too.
But there are entire continents with billions of people who would laugh at the concept of pressing blue as well. You don't outnumber them, they won't press blue. That's the whole scenario in the west right now, when you think about it.