mission-control

A five-panel SMBC comic in purple-and-orange tones. Panel 1: a red-haired bearded man asks a dark-haired man, "Okay, suppose there are a bunch of people who each need an organ to live. Can you kill a healthy person in order to save them?" Panel 2: the dark-haired man answers, "Yes, but only if it's Johnny Thousand-Livers," and the red-haired man replies, "Who?" Panel 3: against an orange background, a short man in a cap stands with his arms flung wide, his entire torso bulging into one huge lumpy mass (representing a thousand livers), proclaiming, "I exist to point out ethical dilemmas that are matters of scale not law!" Panel 4: the red-haired man, now furious, shouts, "Bastard!" Panel 5: the lumpy-bodied man sits calmly and adds, "Also I can drink nearly as much as a middle-aged British man," while the red-haired man responds, "Jesus." The joke: an absurd character literally embodies the trolley-problem-style organ harvesting dilemma, his thousand livers making him both the perfect utilitarian sacrifice and an unkillable heavy drinker. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): an extreme close-up of a sad, resigned face as a voice says, "We may have to self-destruct to avoid an international incident."