Red pill or blue pill (if you knew the outcome in advance)?

Obviously based on The Matrix, if you knew about the "real world" as depicted in the movie for the barren, destroyed, dangerous wasteland that it really is—before taking one of the pills—compared to the simulated world by the machines that is basically the relatively peaceful but deceiving and pre-determined world we live in now, would you go for the red pill or the blue pill?

My memory of the movies is a bit fuzzy, but I think I'd go for the blue pill. I don't care that I'm being used as an energy resource for machines; it beats living in a post-apocalyptic world where robotic entities are out to hunt you. Knowing reality for what it really is isn't all that important to me.

Red is dead, so blue.

Red, because I wouldn't be able to continue living in ignorance if I already knew there was something more to life.

@ShadowConqueror said:

Red, because I wouldn't be able to continue living in ignorance if I already knew there was something more to life.

If you take the blue pill it makes you forget theres "more to life"

It doesn't just send you back in your life and make you pretend you didn't see any of the "truth"

I'd mash them together, swallow the purple pill, and crash the Matrix.

 My instinct says blue, I could use some bliss.
But I'd take red. 
 
A real purpose, one worth fighting for, is worth more to me than what the real world seems to offer.

Blue, because the simulated life (that is interpreted by your mind to be just as real as the legitimate thing) is so much better. Live in post-apocalyptic sewers would be miserable. Also, I would get tired of eating tasty wheat.

Edit: Scene for reference:

I would take the Blue Pill, just so their wouldn't be a sequel.

But if you knew the reality of the world, could you really keep on living in the Matrix without it driving you mad? COULD YOU!?

Answered red but since i likely to push things to far i would take both and see if i get a harsh ignorant reality :)

But if you knew the reality of the world, could you really keep on living in the Matrix without it driving you mad? COULD YOU!?

Red Pill. I want to know 18 different kinds of karate.

@Dagbiker said:

I would take the Blue Pill, just so their wouldn't be a sequel.

This

I don't know. This is the difference between doing the right thing and being miserable or doing the wrong thing and being happy without the danger of guilt weighing you down.

But then this really raises the question of whether the right thing really is right or not? Is it really so bad for all of humanity to live itself out in the Matrix instead of struggling to live in a wasteland, where disease, crime, and short lives are bound to run rampant? Certainly the truth of where we truly live would be known, but the real question here should be is that truth worth it?

wow when i voted it was 50/50

@SomeDeliCook: Even so, I would take the red pill. Although I wouldn't remember it, the act of condemning myself to ignorance just isn't something I would do.

I would take blue. Living in constant misery seems like it would quickly overcome my initial feeling of pride in taking the "right" answer of knowing the truth. Besides I probably wouldn't be wearing sunglasses and fighting crazy duplicate robot things even if I'd have chosen red.

Red Pill. Because I keep it real.

Took both pills, when a bloke in a trench coat

And the locs in the chair had approached him here

Red.

@Landon said:

Red Pill. I want to know 18 different kinds of karate.

This man has the right answer. Fuck learning, just transfer all that info into my cranium.

Blue so I don't get murdered by robot guys.

If I take the red pill do I have to live in shitty cave party zion? Can I still go into the matrix or make my own training program and spend all my time in that so I don't have to smell future hippies all day?

@Hailinel said:

I'd mash them together, swallow the purple pill, and crash the Matrix.

Ladies & gentlemen, the winner of the Matrix.

Blue. I like the color blue.

I chose blue pill, but if I actually thought there was a good chance of me being "The One" and being capable of making a difference I would probably choose red. Otherwise it just comes down to what makes you happier.

both, but you cant vote for both.

i would take the red one because I believe that ignorance is ruining this world...

@Dagbiker said:

I would take the Blue Pill, just so their wouldn't be a sequel.

Exactly!

Red.

Why not both?

Now I'll admit to not having seen either of the sequels, which I don't think is too bad of a thing, but if I really can know all of the consequences ahead of time, and if what I have read about the sequel plots is true, which is:

Then I will take the blue pill. Fuck that future.

Having said that, if it's only the events of the first Matrix I know about, then sure, I'll take the red pill, but I'll be one of the techies on the outside, none of that 'seeing the world as false' crap. I'll take a shitty real world which could get better that a good world I know is fake and is about as good as it'll ever be.

Can I take the red pill, then receive a bribe from agent Smith, and be placed in whatever reality I want? I choose that.

The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth! Whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. And if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform.

Red Pill. Why learn when I could just instantly know stuff?

Red, the truth is all that matters.

Man, how cool was the Matrix before they ruined it?

So what would happen if I took both?

There should be a green pill... if you get what I mean.

But I would probably take the red pill, because as someone else said, learn karate almost instanteously and everything else very fast.

Fighting with agents and shit would hurt though.

Knowing the outcome in advance is cheating. I find the illusion of choice to be funny. Has everybody seen the videos Giant Bomb did for the Matrix Online? If you pick the blue pill, you never advance to the game.

GRIND THOSE PILLS UP AND SNORT'EM.

Edit:Been drinking. Took me 8 clicks to hit the post reply button.

The real world of the Matrix didn't seem so bad. They had awesome lives full of adventure, and spent their free-time having giant orgies while rocking out to heavy metal in leather trench coats.

What a bunch of cowards 
Anyways, red pill

In the moment, I'd choose Red. Because you're gonna fucking choose Red, no one chooses to forget.

For every moment after, I'd wish I chose Blue.

Ignorance is bliss.

*Harp*

I feel we're all ignoring the fact that you're swallowing an unknown pharmaceutical given to you by a complete stranger. In reality you don't know either of the options, all you know is just what he's telling you...

That said, I'd go blue. Don't really see the negative. Robots rose up in rebellion against their opressors, they then use their opressors for sustenance but at the same time allow them to live full lives in blissful ignorance. Sounds like a pretty friendly parasite in essence. Maybe this is because I play video games, but I really have no issue with a virtual world.

Red Pill.

Then I could learn Kung Fu and fun around in simulation programs.

Don't forget the Woman in the Red Dress.

@ZeForgotten said:

What a bunch of cowards Anyways, red pill

Even if it meant abandoning everyone you've ever known in your life? Your mom, your dad, your friends, your loved ones? All you fond experiences as a child? Hell, all your experiences period. You'd just be giving up all of those relationships and memories as a lie.

I gotta go with the "red pill" because I don't remember Neo having all that great a life in the Matrix to begin with.

I'd be willing to trade my 9 to 5 for a chance to instantly learn anything, eat creamed corn three times a day, and romance Carrie Anne Moss circa 1999.

@ZeForgotten said:

What a bunch of cowards Anyways, red pill

Even if it meant abandoning everyone you've ever known in your life? Your mom, your dad, your friends, your loved ones? All you fond experiences as a child? Hell, all your experiences period. You'd just be giving up all of those relationships and memories as a lie.