Comic #6023: matrix

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "Hey Zortrang, is it okay to steal food to feed the hungry?"
• Character 2: "Just consult the morality matrix."

Panel 2:

• Character 1: "What?"
• Character 2: "You know, the product of the morality numbers."

Panel 3:

• Character 1: "What?"
• Character 2: "The morality numbers. In the morality set? Like, there are whole numbers, imaginary numbers, surreal numbers, morality numbers, odd numbers, complex numbers…"

Panel 4:

• Character 1: "You mean to tell me you have spacecraft, artificial intelligence, thousands of branches of mathematics, and you haven't hit upon the objective mathematical rules of ethics?"

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "If you identify my ignorance any harder I will stab your face!"
• Character 2: "It all makes so much sense."