Comic #4245: evil-ethics
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Panel 1:
- Person 1 (orange hair): "I subscribe to a philosophy called 'evil utilitarianism.'"
- Person 2 (brown hair): "I believe we should locate the most viscerally repugnant conclusions of happiness maximization, then do them IMMEDIATELY."
Panel 2:
- Person 2: "For instance, if we discover that killing all of the people in a particular village will result in more aggregate happiness over the next thousand years, not only should we do it NOW, then celebrate with ice cream cake."
Panel 3:
- Person 3 (blonde hair): "Will you join me? We could overthrow a justly-elected government and execute its leaders in the expectation of a more just future society."
- Person 1: "No can do. I'm an evil deontologist."
Panel 4:
- Person 1: "Then have ice cream cake."
Panel 5:
- Person 2: "For instance, I like finding situations where I could save a life by telling a consequence-free lie, then refusing to do it on principle."
- Person 3: "Ah."
Panel 6:
- Person 1: "Evil is really an underappreciated field of study."
- Person 2: "You may be interested in something called 'political economy.'"
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