Comic #6163: hamlet

Description

Here's the transcription of the comic's text:

Panel 1: "Dear God… I'm halfway through Hamlet, and… should he kill the uncle who murdered his father and married his mother?"

Panel 2: "Depends on his species."

Panel 3: "Look, there are basically three types of animal: solitary, social, and eusocial."

Panel 4: "If Hamlet is solitary, killing the uncle is just a cost-benefit analysis that's mostly about calories and baby production from the perspective of the individual."

Panel 5: "If Hamlet is eusocial, like wasps or naked mole rats, it's a simple cost-benefit analysis that's mostly about calories and baby production from the perspective of the colony."

Panel 6: "Hamlet is people. People are a social species. We have strong tendencies both to selfishness and groupishness, and frankly it's usually hard to tell whether we're being one or the other."

Panel 7: "In that case…? He should probably just go nuts."