Neither Chinese nor Japanese are a race. They’re the same race with different nationality
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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Chinese would probably vote Japanese
China’s neighbours would for China
Majority white and black would vote for each other
And nothing we didn’t already know would be revealed
FUBAR@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Kase@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I feel like a lot of us (myself included) would vote for things that aren’t races because we don’t understand the difference
garden_boi@feddit.de 7 months ago
Maybe the whole concept of “human races” is unscientific anyways?
jarfil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Inconceivable! Have you never seen a Chihuahua and a Doberman, or an American and… uh… bigfoot? fairies?.. yeah, that, tooth fairies! 🙈
Kase@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Good point. And aliens would probably come up with different “groups” anyway lol
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
There are a lot of people that treat it as such
JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 months ago
Well, if “none” wins then no one is killed and you get no technology. That’s my interpretation at least.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 7 months ago
Based on the fact they tattoo your answer afterwards, the only way you would have gotten technology is by voting none in a consensus showing you value life over technology, therefore your more likely to be responsible with it, vote on anything other than none and you have voided your ability to be responsible hence no technology. The fact this is not a more common interpretation is honestly disheartening.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 months ago
By interpretation I just mean if I was there and I was assuming the aliens weren’t lying about their intentions that’s how I would take “none”.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 7 months ago
And I’m saying how that being such a common interpretation is disheartening. It should be more apt to apply that any sufficiently advanced being is going to value harmony not disorder which would lead to instability and eventual collapse, hence why it would be an apt litmus test to see if a society would be capable of responsibly utilizing any of their technology. The fact so many are just like “well I like tech” and someone’s gonna say a group so I should say a small minority is extremely sad to see being a common take. I would hope more would recognize the implications behind such an ask, but I guess in this small sample size that’s not the case.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 7 months ago
You really think the majority wouldn’t vote for “none”, given it’s an option?
Even if one were to think practically about it (if we all vote none, they won’t share the tech or whatever, for the sake of they hypothetical), wouldn’t most people just choose a super small ethnic group?
Like sorry Inuits, hate to say it but ya’ll shoulda tried imperialism lmao
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 7 months ago
Based on the way the meme plays off, the only practical way to get the tech would show you value life over technology, hence the option for none, if it’s not a consensus for none how could you expect that species to act responsible with the tech and hence the tattooing and leaving.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I’m saying none wasn’t given as an option so it should be assumed to not be
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 7 months ago
In the meme it says none is a choice tho
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Rip I missed that
ChexMax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right, that’s what I was thinking : just try to pick the smallest race. I’m guessing the majority would try to do the same thing. Obviously you have people who hate other races, but I’m hoping that even if 30% have the same idea, maybe it limits casualties… unless we’re all allowed to Google though, I’m guessing most of us have different guesses as to what the smallest race is
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I feel like sensible votes wouldn’t matter there are two many racists, it comes down to who the biggest population blocks are most racist against - and what counts as a race, like if it’s from a list of like five or six races then it’ll be fifth to having French and German rather than just European
jarfil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The smallest race is “human”.
If the aliens were to go through with actually eliminating the most voted “race”, they’d wipe out everyone.