organs
Original: organs on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red beard: 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:
Dark-haired man: Yes, but only if it's Johnny Thousand-Livers.
Red-bearded man: Who?
Panel 3:
A man wearing a cap stands with arms spread wide, his abdomen grotesquely swollen and lumpy (implying it is full of livers).
Caption (the capped man speaking): I exist to point out ethical dilemmas that are matters of scale not law!
Panel 4:
Red-bearded man (angry): Bastard!
Panel 5:
The capped man (Johnny Thousand-Livers), sitting cross-legged with his bulging belly: Also I can drink nearly as much as a middle-aged British man.
Red-bearded man: Jesus.
Votey:
A man with a worried, furrowed-brow expression: How in God's name did you even discover that?
Man with red beard: 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:
Dark-haired man: Yes, but only if it's Johnny Thousand-Livers.
Red-bearded man: Who?
Panel 3:
A man wearing a cap stands with arms spread wide, his abdomen grotesquely swollen and lumpy (implying it is full of livers).
Caption (the capped man speaking): I exist to point out ethical dilemmas that are matters of scale not law!
Panel 4:
Red-bearded man (angry): Bastard!
Panel 5:
The capped man (Johnny Thousand-Livers), sitting cross-legged with his bulging belly: Also I can drink nearly as much as a middle-aged British man.
Red-bearded man: Jesus.
Votey:
A man with a worried, furrowed-brow expression: How in God's name did you even discover that?
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panels 1-2: A red-bearded man asks a dark-haired man whether you can kill one healthy person to harvest organs and save many people who each need an organ. The dark-haired man replies, "Yes, but only if it's Johnny Thousand-Livers." The red-bearded man asks, "Who?" Panel 3: A man in a cap stands with arms outstretched, his torso/belly enormously swollen and covered in round lumps (implying it is packed with a thousand livers). A caption has him declaring, "I exist to point out ethical dilemmas that are matters of scale not law!" Panel 4: The red-bearded man, now angry, shouts "Bastard!" Panel 5: Johnny Thousand-Livers sits cross-legged with his lumpy belly and adds, "Also I can drink nearly as much as a middle-aged British man." The red-bearded man responds, "Jesus." Votey aftercomic: A close-up of a worried-looking man with a furrowed brow asking, "How in God's name did you even discover that?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.