Comic #4347: moral-relativity

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Panel 1:
Character 1: "I’m a moral relativist."
Character 2: "Like, you don’t believe in the concept of moral truth?"

Panel 2:
Character 1: "No. I base my ethical system on my velocity relative to Earth."
Character 2: "That makes no sense."
Character 1: "It’s the only view that makes sense."

Panel 3:
Character 1: "The closer I am to lightspeed relative to other humans, the more they appear to me to be living their lives in an instant."
Character 2: "The more fleeting their lives, the less significant they seem to me."

Panel 4:
Character 1: "How does one assign personhood to a creature that might live and die in the span of one breath?"
Character 2: "I just don’t think, for instance, you should be allowed to kill someone just because they have a slower reference frame."

Panel 5:
Character 1: "What quaint Newtonian morality!"
(A character in the background is seen sliding down a slope.)