"If you pick red, you dont care that people who picked blue die."
This is a test of selfishness and lack of care for others.
If you puck blue, you want everyone to live.
If you pick red, you dont care that people who picked blue die.
There is no other way to argue this. Statistically you cant get more than like 70% of people to agree on almost anything, so picking red, youre ok with wiping out like 30% of people.
Its easy to make that choice when you don't know who the 30% is. This shows a lack of empathy, and forethought, because surely you will have some family members, your mom, brother, niece, etc that pick blue, and had you known that consequence beforehand, you would have chosen different.
This sort of experiment seems benign, but its a glimpse at how the 45% or so of people actually feel about the 55% that chose correctly.
They will sell you down the river quick if they dont know you personally, but then play ignorant/stupid when the consequences hit them personally.