Comic #6538: esteem

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "God, if you were dead, would everything be morally permissible?"
• Character 2: "Yeah, that's why I stick around."

Panel 2:

• Character 1: "To enforce good behavior?"
• Character 2: "No, for your self esteem."

Panel 3:

• Character 2: "If I disappeared, you'd act the same. Wake, work, wank, wink. Day in, day out, till you die."

Panel 4:

• Character 2: "You like to think you have this freaky spooky dark side that can only be restrained by the intercession of a universe-building god of everything, but the truth is you're just an iddybiddy little ape whose darkest conceivable undertaking would be thieving part of a co-worker's lunch."

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "My continued presence allows you to fantasize about what you aren't, and build a mountain of self-regard on a heap of nothing."

Panel 6:

• Character 1: "Okay but sometimes I think about really mean stuff."
• Character 2: "Ooooh, you absolute wildman."