A viral thought experiment has been making the rounds online: press one button and guarantee your own survival, or press another and take a risk to save everyone.
Is the most “rational” choice really the right one? Or is there something deeper guiding our instincts?
The more you think about this question, the more it raises deeper questions about morality, responsibility, and how we relate to others.
In this video, Pedro Gabriel breaks down the “red button vs blue button” dilemma, and reflects on what this scenario reveals about individualism, self-sacrifice, and the way we make ethical decisions—both in theory and in everyday life.
Pedro Gabriel, MD, is a Catholic layman and physician, born and residing in Portugal. He is a medical oncologist, currently employed in a Portuguese public hospital. A published writer of Catholic novels with a Tolkienite flavor, he is also a parish reader and a former catechist. He seeks to better understand the relationship of God and Man by putting the lens on the frailty of the human condition, be it physical and spiritual. He also wishes to provide a fresh perspective of current Church and World affairs from the point of view of a small western European country, highly secularized but also highly Catholic by tradition.
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