Comic #3639: cause-and-effect

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Person 2: "Depends on your time horizon."

Panel 2: Person 1: "Why?" Person 2: "Well, suppose that a good person is walking down the street. Pow. A gorilla punches her in the face. That's bad."

Panel 3: Person 1: "Why did it happen? If your time horizon is one minute, it happened because the gorilla was angry."

Panel 4: Person 2: "Go back ten minutes, and it happened because the keeper forgot to lock the pen, then the gorilla took a certain path, then saw a light and got scared."

Panel 5: Person 2: "Go back a day and the causes exponentiate further: the keeper didn’t get enough sleep because he’s depressed. The gorilla happened to play with the right door. The woman walked outside because the sky was clear."

Panel 6: Person 2: "Go back ten years, and asking 'why?' is a total joke. And that’s just for a small event."

Panel 7: Person 2: "Sorry, wait, I phrased that poorly. Suppose we assume the world is a just place—" Person 1: "BAHAHAHA!"

Note: The comic depicts a humorous and philosophical dialogue about the complexities of causality and the nature of good and bad events in life.