u/Hopeful_Hornet4460

I tried to match the framing of the original problem as best as I could, maybe. I'm hard biased towards blue so please take that into consideration.

The death/injury immunity for red majority is to cover the case of things like both pilots of an airplane picking blue and other niche cases.

My main source for the statistic data is Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising : Revengeance.

Other sources include international census data on the percentage of certain age groups combined with surface level knowledge of economical statistics and decision making processes of general populations... but I can't be assed with citing all that because it won't change anyone's opinion of my data for the better.

Edit: For those who don't get the Senator Armstrong joke or something

https://youtu.be/r7l0Rq9E8MY?si=nFCaCYmhRP5_Uo6X

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Also, for where I got the data, I asked an orangutan in the woods (because f*** llms)
She said the following things to me:
21% of the world is kids under 14
3 is the global average number of kids per woman
7% of the world can be reasonably assumed as a parent to one of these 14 year olds
10% of the world is elderly adults over 60
25% percent of the world has an IQ below 90 (which would be an additional 15% of people not already listed here).
It can be reasonably assumed that this group, which consists of 50% of the global population, will likely vote 50/50 on the button push and 25% can be reasonably assumed.

If you actually do research yourself you may find that I fudged some of these numbers, significantly, in favor for the argument of red. Being completely accurate an researched with percentages makes this demographic about ~64% of the world population. Running proper economic formulas on each demographic picking what that demographic would likely do, yields more of a 73/27 split in favor of blue. No, there is no actual source for this because no scientist has actually run the results and calculated formulas for this specific case... So as per Armstrong "I made it up".... but was reasonable as I could be. To be completely fair, if you do your own cited research and calcs on why I am completely wrong and send me your work and all that on it, I will gladly DM and share specifically with you, everything I used to get my numbers. Can't be assed otherwise tbh, my experience has shown me that itthe effort gets dismissed.

Yes, it will be potential suicide button as that is how every person who tries has defended red has vehemently explained it as.

Yes, magically disappearing 10% of the global population would be considered a population collapse of a serious magnitude and would pose a THREAT of total collapse, not an actual collapse.

Yes, PRACTICALLY no one who is altruistic or self-sacrifcing is picking red. There is a non-zero number of individuals who are altruistic who will pick red. As an example, I could see a Doctor who was in the middle of a 12 hour brain surgery being like "I have to guarantee my patient's safety" kind of thing, especially being tired and strung out like that.

No, I did not state that those who pick red are selfish. They have their reasons and I respect that... but there is an expression from my neck of the woods that goes "a hit dog will holler" so...

No, the only person responsible for the blue deaths is the deity, I stated that. I do not hold a single red button person accountable for any blue deaths, that's dumb and I do not think ill of those who push red. There are a lot of valid reasons to push it.

"You're lying, you'd change your mind in reality" no... I am an idiot who would rather die worried about what my spouse and kids would pick. I am a spineless idiot who does not want to be burdened with the potential guilt of killing my 4 year old. I would blame myself, not anybody else who picked red, only myself, for I am a selfish idiot. I also know my spouse would pick blue without hesitation because they love the world with every fiber of their being... same goes form my 6 year old... If anything, I am lying about all of this because I do love humanity as much as they do, I am just jaded enough to excuse my choice on being selfish.

Your loved ones are a part of the demographics that are a coin toss on picking blue. Everything said about the general population is going to be roughly true for all groups of peeps. This includes family, friends, and all that jazz. If you have no one or if your family is hyper abusive or something in those lines and that fuels a large part of your choice for red, I love you and you are why I deeply respect red.

Second edit:

I mean practically none altruistic or self-sacrificing left in the means of "functionally" since a large majority of them would have picked blue. Those who remain wouldn't be enough to pull the weight that society at large has placed on that group of people. It would make it a grueling struggle for altruistic peeps that picked red. Not enough to prevent the larger collapse of society, but likely to at least preserve a little bubble of it.