?????? It does not say ANYWHERE that the red option is a bad choice. Nowhere. Not. One. Single. Place.
It seems to me that there are many aspects of the game mechanics that you know about because you made the game, but you seem not to realize the players don't know.
You also seem to think players always make choices because they actively want the consequences of those choices. However, the players themselves don't know the consequences of their choices. So it's not possible for that to be their reasoning.