I worry about putting too much weight on people’s public statements, for a thought experiment that all participants know is purely about signaling. nobody died or will die from these fake buttons. It’s just a chance to bloviate about cooperation vs defection in a politically-adjacent format, with extremely predictable results (“blue” political pursuation focuses on “good people take risks to save others” and “red” leaners focus on “if everyone made good decisions for themselves, they wouldn’t need so much saving”).
If it were real, most humans would push the button that their preferred elites and media influencers tell them to. Both can be justified, as you point out, with clever framing.
I worry about putting too much weight on people’s public statements, for a thought experiment that all participants know is purely about signaling. nobody died or will die from these fake buttons. It’s just a chance to bloviate about cooperation vs defection in a politically-adjacent format, with extremely predictable results (“blue” political pursuation focuses on “good people take risks to save others” and “red” leaners focus on “if everyone made good decisions for themselves, they wouldn’t need so much saving”).
If it were real, most humans would push the button that their preferred elites and media influencers tell them to. Both can be justified, as you point out, with clever framing.