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I wouldn't want to live in a world where red won. Sociologically it would be an interesting question of how a society which thanos snapped itself would cope. Rugged individualism? "They were stupid and weak for picking blue, we're the smart ones."?
I think that kind of attitude is shortsighted.
Consider that you're currently living in a world where red all but won (we are ruled by massive nation-states and corporations that live according to the principle of preserving themselves first and promote people who do that for them), and the percentage of those really willing to take major risks for others is quite low when put to a real test. Conversely, there must be many decent people who would vote red yet aren't complete insufferable psychopaths and egoists (if only because ~45% of voters on a major twitter poll probably aren't completely insufferable).
If you hold people to the standard of them being willing to risk their own life to save yours, you'll likely find yourself disappointed. (Not just risk, in fact - risk implies some measure of the risker's skill and agency mattering - but gamble.)
I think people are acting more selfless than they really would be, and ofc voting was influenced by surrounding discourse, and of course the scenario is that red won, so some <50% of the population picked blue and died. The plurality of less-selfish people who voted blue, who then get thanos-snapped, were probably load bearing to some degree. I think there are a lot of negative externalities to red winning that red-pressers aren't considering.
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Would you still answer the same way if the poll showed 42.1% blue and 57.9% red? Like, are you actually willing to commit suicide to not live in such a world?
Because I'm not. If that's the way the world goes then that's the way the world goes, I'll still choose to be here until I die.
Also 40% isn't too far off from the Black Death's estimated toll of 30% to 60% of Europe's population. Is modern society too much of a fucking pussy to survive what Europe survived a few centuries ago? I doubt it. We're going to bounce back fine in the long-run. The intervening years will suck, but that's no excuse to give up on civilization rebuilding. (And maybe they won't even suck! The cost of labor went way up after the Black Death, so surviving craftsmen did pretty well.)
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