free-will
Original: free-will on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Red-haired boy (standing on a snowy hill): DO YOU THINK WE HAVE FREE WILL?
Dark-haired boy (kneeling, rolling a snowball): WE? NO.
Panel 2:
Dark-haired boy: I'M A RADICAL SEMI-COMPATIBILIST. I THINK EVERYONE HAS FREE WILL EXCEPT ME.
Panel 3:
Dark-haired boy (silhouetted, pushing the now-large snowball up a slope): THE REST OF YOU ARE CULPABLE FOR YOUR BAD ACTIONS. ME? I'M JUST ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
Panel 4:
Red-haired boy (both kids standing atop the snow peak beside the giant snowball): ...DO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS?
Dark-haired boy: THAT IS A QUESTION FOR THE COSMOS.
Panel 5:
The giant snowball rolls down the snowy slope, unmanned.
Panel 6:
The snowball crashes through a snow fort/igloo marked with a sign reading "No girls allowed!!!", scattering several kids who go flying. The dark-haired boy, watching from off to the side, declares:
Dark-haired boy: I AM BUT A LEAF ON THE WIND!
Votey:
Handwritten caption above a sad, downcast face: "The wind has been cruel this day."
Red-haired boy (standing on a snowy hill): DO YOU THINK WE HAVE FREE WILL?
Dark-haired boy (kneeling, rolling a snowball): WE? NO.
Panel 2:
Dark-haired boy: I'M A RADICAL SEMI-COMPATIBILIST. I THINK EVERYONE HAS FREE WILL EXCEPT ME.
Panel 3:
Dark-haired boy (silhouetted, pushing the now-large snowball up a slope): THE REST OF YOU ARE CULPABLE FOR YOUR BAD ACTIONS. ME? I'M JUST ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
Panel 4:
Red-haired boy (both kids standing atop the snow peak beside the giant snowball): ...DO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS?
Dark-haired boy: THAT IS A QUESTION FOR THE COSMOS.
Panel 5:
The giant snowball rolls down the snowy slope, unmanned.
Panel 6:
The snowball crashes through a snow fort/igloo marked with a sign reading "No girls allowed!!!", scattering several kids who go flying. The dark-haired boy, watching from off to the side, declares:
Dark-haired boy: I AM BUT A LEAF ON THE WIND!
Votey:
Handwritten caption above a sad, downcast face: "The wind has been cruel this day."
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic set on a snowy hill. A red-haired boy asks a dark-haired boy who is rolling a snowball, "Do you think we have free will?" The dark-haired boy replies, "We? No. I'm a radical semi-compatibilist. I think everyone has free will except me. The rest of you are culpable for your bad actions. Me? I'm just along for the ride," as he shoves the now-enormous snowball up a slope (shown in stark black-and-white silhouette). At the peak the red-haired boy asks, "...Do you have to do this?" and the other answers, "That is a question for the cosmos." He releases the giant snowball, which rolls downhill and smashes into a snow fort bearing a sign that reads "No girls allowed!!!", flinging the kids inside into the air. He proclaims, "I am but a leaf on the wind!" Votey panel: a sad, slumped face under the handwritten caption "The wind has been cruel this day." The joke: he dodges moral responsibility for deliberately wrecking the fort by claiming he alone lacks free will.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.