Game-theory considerations aside, this is an incredibly well-crafted scissor statement!
The disagreement between red and blue is self-reinforcing, since whichever you initially think is right, you can say everyone will live if they’d just all do what you are doing. It pushes people to insult each other and entrench their positions even further, since from red’s perspective blues are stupidly risking their lives and unnecesarily weighing on their conscience when they would be fine if nobody chose blue in the first place, and from blue’s perspective red is condemning them to die for their own safety. Red calls blue stupid, blue calls red evil. Not to mention the obvious connection to the wider red and blue tribes, “antisocial” individualism vs “bleeding-heart” collectivism. (though not a perfect correspondance, I’d consider myself blue tribe but would choose red in this situation. You survive no matter what and the only people who might die as a consequence also all had the “you survive no matter what” option.)
Game-theory considerations aside, this is an incredibly well-crafted scissor statement!
The disagreement between red and blue is self-reinforcing, since whichever you initially think is right, you can say everyone will live if they’d just all do what you are doing. It pushes people to insult each other and entrench their positions even further, since from red’s perspective blues are stupidly risking their lives and unnecesarily weighing on their conscience when they would be fine if nobody chose blue in the first place, and from blue’s perspective red is condemning them to die for their own safety. Red calls blue stupid, blue calls red evil. Not to mention the obvious connection to the wider red and blue tribes, “antisocial” individualism vs “bleeding-heart” collectivism. (though not a perfect correspondance, I’d consider myself blue tribe but would choose red in this situation. You survive no matter what and the only people who might die as a consequence also all had the “you survive no matter what” option.)