eugenics-is-a-great-idea
Original: eugenics-is-a-great-idea on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (red hair): I don't see what's so bad about eugenics. On sure, there's some bad history, but we could make people smarter, stronger, and more empathetic.
Man (brown hair): Great idea! Tell you what: I have a time machine, since eugenics is so good. Let's make it happen in the past.
Panel 2 (caption on time machine dial): Which scientifically advanced previous generation would you like to receive complete control over your physical and mental attributes? 1950: America? 1900: Britain? 1300: France?
Panel 3:
Woman: That's not fair! Those people had problems. Everyone knows ethics was finally worked out in summer, 2013.
Man: What about all the future people who think you're wrong?
Woman: I believe we can sterilize them via the water supply.
Votey:
Woman (off-panel, in speech bubble): How come no one ever believes me?
(A small figure stands beside a large building labeled "TIME MACHINE.")
Woman (red hair): I don't see what's so bad about eugenics. On sure, there's some bad history, but we could make people smarter, stronger, and more empathetic.
Man (brown hair): Great idea! Tell you what: I have a time machine, since eugenics is so good. Let's make it happen in the past.
Panel 2 (caption on time machine dial): Which scientifically advanced previous generation would you like to receive complete control over your physical and mental attributes? 1950: America? 1900: Britain? 1300: France?
Panel 3:
Woman: That's not fair! Those people had problems. Everyone knows ethics was finally worked out in summer, 2013.
Man: What about all the future people who think you're wrong?
Woman: I believe we can sterilize them via the water supply.
Votey:
Woman (off-panel, in speech bubble): How come no one ever believes me?
(A small figure stands beside a large building labeled "TIME MACHINE.")
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A red-haired woman tells a brown-haired man, "I don't see what's so bad about eugenics. Oh sure, there's some bad history, but we could make people smarter, stronger, and more empathetic." The man replies, "Great idea! Tell you what: I have a time machine, since eugenics is so good. Let's make it happen in the past." Panel 2: A close-up of a dial-like control labeled with the question, "Which scientifically advanced previous generation would you like to receive complete control over your physical and mental attributes? 1950: America? 1900: Britain? 1300: France?" Panel 3: The woman objects, "That's not fair! Those people had problems. Everyone knows ethics was finally worked out in summer, 2013." The man asks, "What about all the future people who think you're wrong?" She answers, "I believe we can sterilize them via the water supply." The joke: she dodges the time-relativity point about eugenics by simply asserting her own era is the correct one and proposing to eliminate future dissenters. Votey (aftercomic): A small figure stands beside a tall building labeled "TIME MACHINE," and an off-panel voice in a speech bubble asks, "How come no one ever believes me?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.