causal

A four-panel comic. A teenage daughter argues with her mother. Panel 1: The mother says "You're grounded?!" and the daughter snaps back "You can't ground me!" Panel 2: The daughter declares that her misgivings are the direct consequences of the fatal conditions of reality. Panel 3: She insists "There is no free will! Thus all justice is a farce!" and claims she's a robot in a world without choice with no god; her mother flatly replies that not only will the daughter not adopt that view, she's also canceling her screen time for two weeks. Panel 4: The daughter protests "But you could do otherwise!" and the mother coolly answers "That'd violate causality" — using the daughter's own determinism against her. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the daughter's anguished, tearful face as she wails "There dwells no justice in the house of Mom!"