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by swed420 60 days ago
Or blue doesn't want to live in the world where only selfish/cynical people remain.
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Confusingly, though, as you are of course a nice person, if you vote red you'd demonstrate that some red voters are nice, and then the choice is less severe. Then voting red is like "I embrace humanity, warts and all", while voting blue is like "I cannot tolerate sharing the planet with anyone even slightly impure".
It has some conflicting circular dependencies in assumptions which is why the thought experiment is kind of dumb overall.