Comic #2933: 2013-05-29

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Alien: We believe it is the goal of every species to behave with the best ethics possible.

Human: The what?

Alien: The best ethics. You know ethics? It's like… trying to maximize how happy everybody is.

Human: What's "happy"?

Alien: And "emotion"?

Alien: Emotion is a sort of heuristic way of thinking. Like, when you can't use logic to solve a problem or understand a situation, you feel emotions about it instead.

Human: So, let me get this straight… You have a vague, unreliable mode of thought called "emotion," of which you have an arbitrary subcategory called "happy," which you've chosen as the deciding unit to determine your value as a species?

Alien: Yeah. Pretty much. What do Zorblaixians consider the highest behavior?

Alien: Smugly tolerating inferior species.

Human: What was the point of this meeting again?

Alien: Just wanted your perspective.

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