Comic #6455: starving

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Panel 1:

• First character: "Is it moral to steal bread to feed starving people?"
• Second character: "Depends on the outcome."

Panel 2:

• First character narrating: "Humans believe morality is a kind of floating stuff that inhabits situations and people, but actually we're just guessing what society would think of us and how that affects our chance for power and sex."

Panel 3:

• First character: "If stealing bread to feed people gets me shamed or jailed or both, I'll decide it's immoral. If stealing bread makes me a modern Robin Hood, I'll decide I had no choice but to do the right thing, and I will do my best to make sure pretty girls everywhere find out about it."

Panel 4:

• Second character: "I… I kinda feel like your entire theory is immoral?"
• First character: "Cool sexy immoral or social pariah immoral?"

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