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A young man with orange hair wearing a sweater vest sits at a table across from a smiling red-haired woman in glasses and a man with a mustache. The young man gestures and declares, "It seems to me that genetically modifying babies is not just ethically acceptable, it's mandatory!" The woman replies with a satisfied smile, "Good. Goooood." A caption beneath the panel reveals her inner thought: "So glad I selected that high-obedience embryo for fertilization." The joke: the young man is her genetically engineered, obedience-optimized child enthusiastically endorsing the very practice that created him. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the young man's face as he adds, "I love wearing dapper sweatervests so much" — another sign of his programmed compliance.