3 Body Problem stars on the show’s big question: would you push the button?

Image: Ed Miller / Netflix One thing that confounds me after reading Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem and watching its Netflix adaptation is a simple button.Spoilers for 3 Body Problem to follow.
I still haven’t been able to wrap my head around why Ye Wenjie, when faced with the choice to respond to or ignore transmissions from the San-Ti, an alien race, chose to respond. Throughout human history, first contact events rarely go well and go even worse when the two sides are technolo