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If polls predict 40% blue you should not vote blue "as a matter of game theory", because that is suicide.
as a matter of game theory you should always vote red, as a matter of morality you should always vote blue. also, a part of the "dilemma" is that you don't know how the votes are gonna go.
As I explained elsewhere, my comment was just about the inapplicability of mathematics to this question. But also, is that really what morality always says? What if polls predict 1% will vote blue? What if they predict only one other person will vote blue? Are you always obligated to martyr yourself?
No, and I'm not going to further endorse a myopic framing as "game theory". The analysis which focuses on individual survival is wrong. Kill the Austrian-school economist in your mind.
Very quotable
You're the one who mentioned "game theory" in the first place, I was just directly quoting you. My sentence was of the form "game theory doesn't say X", not "game theory does say Y". I added quotation marks to clarify.
My point here is that you can make whatever philosophical and ethical arguments about the situation you want, but none of game theory, Arrow's theorem, nor the concept of a dictator have any bearing on it. It is an ethics question rather than a mathematical question, and it is an error to claim that your argument is a mathematical one.