Comic #6663: flourishing

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Professor, all these ethical systems talk about 'human flourishing' but I have no idea what it means."

Panel 2: Professor: "Oh, that’s easy. 'Human flourishing' comes from the ancient Greek concept of 'eudaimonia' which translates as 'pleasure that is officially approved by philosophers.'"

Panel 3: Professor: "If you can start a sentence with 'every human being deserves to experience…' and then end the sentence with a straight face, it’s human flourishing. Love, compassion, beauty, truth, the sublime."

Panel 4: Professor: "This is why you can’t 'experience eudaimonia' by getting a blow job while eating Count Chocula."

Panel 5: Person 1: "You seem to reject these ideas."

Panel 6: Professor: "Yes, I’m what’s called a fellatio utilitarian."

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