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bad

Original: bad on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Green alien (offscreen/at left, asking): Are humans good or bad?
Man with flame-like orange hair (naked, walking): Neither. We're group oriented.

Panel 2:
Man with orange hair: As long as I'm convinced humanity is part of a single in-group, I'm basically a saint. I'm generous, loving, hard-working.

Panel 3:
Man with orange hair: But, if you convince me someone's part of an out-group given enough programming, by God I'll eat their livers out of their living flesh.

Panel 4:
Green alien (thinking, taking notes): I'm gonna write down "bad" on my checklist.
Man with orange hair (walking away): And I don't even like liver!

Votey:
A hand-drawn clipboard/checklist page reading:
To explode:
- Humans
- Just humans, but all of them ("all of them" underlined)

Alt text

Four-panel SMBC comic. A naked man with flame-like orange hair talks with a small green alien while walking. Panel 1: The alien asks "Are humans good or bad?" The man answers "Neither. We're group oriented." Panel 2, close-up on the man's content face: "As long as I'm convinced humanity is part of a single in-group, I'm basically a saint. I'm generous, loving, hard-working." Panel 3, his face now angry and gritted: "But, if you convince me someone's part of an out-group given enough programming, by God I'll eat their livers out of their living flesh." Panel 4: The alien thinks "I'm gonna write down 'bad' on my checklist," while the man walks off saying "And I don't even like liver!" Votey: a hand-drawn checklist page titled "To explode:" with two bullets, "Humans" and "Just humans, but all of them," the phrase "all of them" underlined twice.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.