Comic #7200: connection

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Panel 1: Character 1: "God, why do bad things happen to good people?"

Character 2: "Hold up, lemme take the lid off and… ah."

Panel 2: Character 2: "There’s your problem. The line running from virtue to happiness is frayed pretty bad."

Panel 3: Character 1: "Normally you want that one real tight. Otherwise, things get so people are happy or even indifferent to suffering, and they do fine. No feedback."

Panel 4: Character 2: "Meanwhile you’re gonna have people loading up virtue all day long and getting no reward, either worldly or transcendent. Sheesh!"

Panel 5: Character 1: "You can run things like this a while, but eventually you get a situation where, so to speak, the wicked prosper and the faithless live at ease."

Panel 6: Character 1: "Can you fix it?"

Panel 7: Character 2: "It’s pretty beat up, man. Tell you what, I can wrap the connection here in an afterlife where the righteous gain eternal bliss while evil ones suffer torment eternal."

Panel 8: Character 1: "What about edge cases, like those who die too young to be truly virtuous, or lives spent badly that were only turned around at the end?"

Panel 9: Character 2: "I’ll run a mercy override and flush them into the good place every six months or so."

Panel 10: Character 1: "Can we not say 'flush'?"

Panel 11: Character 2: "They shall be born again!"

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