Comic #3080: 2013-10-23

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Panel 1: "I feel like I'm a reasonable person who reaches her own conclusions."

Panel 2: "But then I realize I have a huge collection of specific views, the arrangement of which would not be held by anyone who died more than 50 years ago."

Panel 3: "Do we make our own minds, or are we just living in the imaginations of dead men?"

Panel 4: "What if I only have my view of human nature because an idea occurred to Jean-Jacques Rousseau one morning as he sat on the crapper? And if so should I comb through my convictions to remove everything he said first?"

Panel 5: "In his confession book, Rousseau said he found spanking profoundly erotic."

Panel 6: "Look, I came to that conclusion on my own."

Panel 7: "Can we change topics now?"