dilemma-3
Original: dilemma-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with curly blond hair (shirtless) speaks to a small green alien holding a drink.
Man: But why are you destroying Earth?
Man: Well, there's an out-of-control spaceship too fast to stop.
Panel 2:
Alien: Right now it's headed toward five inhabited planets. But, we can make a one-time choice to redirect it through a wormhole, which results in a direct encounter with Earth.
Panel 3:
Man: Ah.
Panel 4:
Man (off-panel, speech tail leading to a silhouette scene): Isn't that sort of a moral dilemma?
Alien (silhouetted, walking alongside the man's silhouette): Humans think so, yeah, which is part of why we're cool with it.
Votey:
The blond man, drawn as a head only, speaks hopefully.
Man: Suppose I got you five more humans. Could I be spared?
A man with curly blond hair (shirtless) speaks to a small green alien holding a drink.
Man: But why are you destroying Earth?
Man: Well, there's an out-of-control spaceship too fast to stop.
Panel 2:
Alien: Right now it's headed toward five inhabited planets. But, we can make a one-time choice to redirect it through a wormhole, which results in a direct encounter with Earth.
Panel 3:
Man: Ah.
Panel 4:
Man (off-panel, speech tail leading to a silhouette scene): Isn't that sort of a moral dilemma?
Alien (silhouetted, walking alongside the man's silhouette): Humans think so, yeah, which is part of why we're cool with it.
Votey:
The blond man, drawn as a head only, speaks hopefully.
Man: Suppose I got you five more humans. Could I be spared?
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic riffing on the trolley problem. Panel 1: a shirtless curly-blond man asks a small green alien (holding a soda cup) "But why are you destroying Earth?" then adds, "Well, there's an out-of-control spaceship too fast to stop." Panel 2: the alien explains, "Right now it's headed toward five inhabited planets. But, we can make a one-time choice to redirect it through a wormhole, which results in a direct encounter with Earth." Panel 3: the man says "Ah." Panel 4: shown as black silhouettes of the man and alien walking together, the man asks "Isn't that sort of a moral dilemma?" and the alien replies, "Humans think so, yeah, which is part of why we're cool with it" - the joke being aliens have no qualms sacrificing one planet (Earth) to save five. Votey: a close-up of the blond man's head pleading, "Suppose I got you five more humans. Could I be spared?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.