mathematics
Original: mathematics on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark hair): Math is useful, sure, but it can't teach us ethics. It can't teach us what the good life is.
Man: True.
Panel 2:
Man: The study of math only teaches you patience, humility, beauty, skeptical forbearance, good reasoning, peace, wonder, joy, the nature of reality and how to make ethical decisions once you've accepted a small number of basic principles.
Panel 3:
Man: But yeah, you have to figure out our system of values and the good life and so on, whatever.
Panel 4:
Woman: I thought you said you learned humility.
Man: I did! I was *taught* humility.
Votey:
Man (speech bubble): I'd explain humility to you but it's too complicated.
(The man stands with a smug expression below the bubble.)
Woman (dark hair): Math is useful, sure, but it can't teach us ethics. It can't teach us what the good life is.
Man: True.
Panel 2:
Man: The study of math only teaches you patience, humility, beauty, skeptical forbearance, good reasoning, peace, wonder, joy, the nature of reality and how to make ethical decisions once you've accepted a small number of basic principles.
Panel 3:
Man: But yeah, you have to figure out our system of values and the good life and so on, whatever.
Panel 4:
Woman: I thought you said you learned humility.
Man: I did! I was *taught* humility.
Votey:
Man (speech bubble): I'd explain humility to you but it's too complicated.
(The man stands with a smug expression below the bubble.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A dark-haired woman tells a man, "Math is useful, sure, but it can't teach us ethics. It can't teach us what the good life is." The man replies, "True." Panel 2: The man launches into a long counter-argument: "The study of math only teaches you patience, humility, beauty, skeptical forbearance, good reasoning, peace, wonder, joy, the nature of reality and how to make ethical decisions once you've accepted a small number of basic principles." Panel 3: He concedes, "But yeah, you have to figure out our system of values and the good life and so on, whatever." Panel 4: The woman says, "I thought you said you learned humility." He answers, "I did! I was *taught* humility," the emphasis revealing he never actually absorbed it. Votey (aftercomic): A small smug man stands beneath a huge speech bubble that reads, "I'd explain humility to you but it's too complicated."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.