Comic #5203: heritable

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Panel 1: Person 1: "I think I was just born garbage." Person 2: "No, no, no."

Panel 2: Person 2: "Behavioral genetics suggests that personality traits become more heritable over time."

Panel 3: Person 2: "If you’re predisposed to being garbage, you probably started okay. Since then you’ve modified your environment to reinforce your innate propensities."

Panel 4: Person 2: "It’s not so much that you were born garbage. It’s that you’re becoming a more pure you." Person 1: "Who is garbage?"

Panel 5: Person 1: "I was actually just fishing for compliments."

Panel 6: Person 2: "Given the sheer quantity of your failures, some of them are probably not your fault."

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