Comic #4429: mona-lisa

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Panel 1
Character A: Would you sacrifice a human life to save the Mona Lisa?
Character B: Oh yeah. Loads of 'em.
Character C: On what basis?

Panel 2
Character B: You're imagining an abstract human life. But there are lots of specific human lives.

Panel 3
Character B: Some of those people are four seconds from dying. Some of those people want to die but are legally barred from it.

Panel 4
Character B: Some of those people are such lovers of art that they would joyously be slain to save even a lesser piece.

Panel 5
Character C: It's easy to solve this class of problems, and it gets easier as population grows.

Panel 6
Character A: I never thought demographics could solve philosophical problems.

Panel 7
Character B: Also, some people deserve to die, and we could use them to save paintings.

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