Comic #3941: ethics

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Panel 1: Person 1: Ethics? What do you mean you have ethics? Person 2: Sure. No killing, no stealing, do unto others as you would be done by.

Panel 2: Person 1: It's not possible.

Panel 3: Person 2: Look, I’m a scientist. I study comparative intelligence. Intelligences are too complicated to study from first principles. So, to study intelligence, we create a standard mind, and we break something. Then, we see how its society develops. Sort of like your “knock-out” mice.

Panel 4: Person 2: Humans are an experiment in minds that haven’t got a… Well, there’s no word in human language for it. A morality organ. The ability to detect moral truth via the senses.

Panel 5: Person 1: What do you mean “closer to true?” Person 2: Oh.

Panel 6: Person 1: You know chicken pot pie? Person 2: …Yeah?

Panel 7: Person 2: It’s an affront to every god in the multiverse. Person 1: Then I defy heaven!

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