ohyesrobot.ordoliberal.com

2012-09-07

Original: 2012-09-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
A lawyer (a man in a blue suit) stands in a courtroom, pointing toward a judge seated at the bench. A client with orange hair and a green shirt sits in the foreground with their back to the viewer.

Lawyer: MY CLIENT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE GUILTY OF BABY MURDER! "JUSTICE" IS A FALLACIOUS PLATONIC IDEAL WE RECEIVED VIA CHRISTIANITY'S EMBRACE OF GREEK THOUGHT IN THE MIDDLE AGES!

Caption (below panel): There is a reason no one hires philosophy majors.

Votey:
A close-up of the same lawyer's face.

Lawyer: "MURDER" IS REALLY JUST A LINGUISTIC NOTION.

Alt text

A single-panel comic set in a courtroom. A lawyer in a blue suit stands and points toward a judge seated high at the bench, while his client, a person with orange hair in a green shirt, sits in the foreground facing away. The lawyer declares: "My client cannot possibly be guilty of baby murder! 'Justice' is a fallacious Platonic ideal we received via Christianity's embrace of Greek thought in the Middle Ages!" A caption beneath reads: "There is a reason no one hires philosophy majors." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the lawyer's face as he adds, "'Murder' is really just a linguistic notion."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.