fish
Original: fish on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man in a lab coat: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
A man with a lab coat over an orange shirt (working at a device): ADDING HUMAN-TYPE PAIN RECEPTORS TO THIS TROUT.
Panel 2:
The bearded man: ...WHY?
The other man: BECAUSE PHILOSOPHY HAS GOTTEN US NOWHERE.
Caption (below the comic): Instead of arguing over whether fish feel pain, why not engineer fish that definitely feel pain and be done with it?
Votey:
The trout (in a speech bubble): ACTUALLY, I'M INTO IT.
A bearded man in a lab coat: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
A man with a lab coat over an orange shirt (working at a device): ADDING HUMAN-TYPE PAIN RECEPTORS TO THIS TROUT.
Panel 2:
The bearded man: ...WHY?
The other man: BECAUSE PHILOSOPHY HAS GOTTEN US NOWHERE.
Caption (below the comic): Instead of arguing over whether fish feel pain, why not engineer fish that definitely feel pain and be done with it?
Votey:
The trout (in a speech bubble): ACTUALLY, I'M INTO IT.
Alt text
Two-panel comic. Two men in lab coats stand over a piece of equipment. In the first panel, a bearded man asks, "What are you doing?" The other man, in an orange shirt, replies, "Adding human-type pain receptors to this trout." In the second panel the bearded man asks, "...Why?" and the other answers, "Because philosophy has gotten us nowhere." A caption below reads: "Instead of arguing over whether fish feel pain, why not engineer fish that definitely feel pain and be done with it?" Votey: a simple line drawing of a fish (the trout) saying, "Actually, I'm into it."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.