I did a recent portrait study of expressions from people on Instagram, however, I feel like their expressions are too robotic and stiff. Could someone who is more experienced in portraiture give me some pointers, please?
We've all seen the dilemma at this point, so I will not waste time explaining it.
If you must know, I'm a blue pusher. However, this doesn't make me right or wrong, morally or rationally. The entire debate hinges upon the fact that selecting red or selecting blue is the correct choice depending upon your personal motivations and any outside variables that you assume apply to the situation, or in other words, your own personal morals and rationale.
My logic for pushing blue:
I believe that in a given sample of people, there will be some unknown percentage that will select opposite of the rest, especially in a sample of 8 billion.
My only goal is to save everyone, and this is a zero-sum requirement. In other words, I fail if I do not save every single person.
Because pushing red can only save everyone if everyone pushes red, and I don't believe this will happen, I'm forced to push blue. If I change 1 to be guaranteed that everyone pushes the same button, then selecting red or blue doesn't matter, because everyone will have voted the same way. I can only be a red pusher if everyone is guaranteed to only push red, but *not* blue, because I personally won't be satisfied unless everyone lives.
I also have a 3rd gut feeling that most people will push blue, so I will push blue too. Why is this relevant? Because there is no data that shows that the majority of people will vote either way.
We have polls that have shown that the majority of people will vote blue, however, you'd be correct to counter that this is not necessarily applicable because what makes the dilemma is the consequence of death, and in a poll the only consequence is losing an internet argument. You'd be hypocritical, as well, if you stated that the majority of people will vote red, because you can only make this statement from deductions of experiments that also do not have consequences of large amounts of people dying and would therefore not be applicable, or because you had a gut feeling that most people will vote red. "Most people will vote red" is just taken as a given, with no proof.
There is a rational and valid argument for red, though:
I care about my survival foremost.
I do not care if I save everyone.
Under these condition, you should always vote red because you will always survive.
There are other arguments for both blue and red, but I don't need to list them all out. All are valid, because they are all justifications for the logic of pushing the button, which is what makes the question.