u/ESN64

For this hypothetical, you have died and through some mishap, have ended up in hell instead of heaven. Feeling some sense of pity, the devil offers a deal for you.

If you accept, the devil will send your soul back to earth to kill god's most pious man. After killing him, both you and the pious man will spend 1 year in hell before spending an eternity in heaven. If you do not kill him, the devil will take your soul and you alone will spend an eternity in hell (the priest will still go to heaven after death). You know instinctually that the devil is not lying to you and there will be no additional trickery, do you accept it?

In this scenario, the standard button pressing question has been issued in real life and the world has had a day to prepare for it. You, a staunch blue advocate, are determined to press it and do your best to convince the people you care about to also vote blue.

Come the day of, you make due on pressing blue, but it is then revealed after the votes have tallied in that red has achieved 60%, dooming 40% of the population. Initially you are shocked by this outcome, but are then given a choice. You and you alone have 1 minute to decide whether you want to change your vote to red. Nobody else will know you've changed your vote if you do. You also are not aware of who has pressed what button, including the people who you have tried to convince the day before to press blue.

Do you swap to red or resign yourself to death by blue? Would you change your answer if red won by a different margin of votes, or if your change in vote wasn't anonymous?

View Poll