okay-3
Original: okay-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child (a boy with orange hair): Mom, is it okay to eat cows?
Panel 2:
Mother: Of course. They don't have souls. They're just complex stimulus-response machines.
Mother: Their suffering is without meaning.
Panel 3:
Child: Thanks, Mom!
Panel 4:
(The child, now smiling.)
Panel 5:
Child: You're not gonna eat me, are you?
Panel 6:
Mother (raising one finger): No, but it'd be OK if I did.
Votey:
A man with a wide, alarmed open-eyed expression and a speech bubble pointing toward the mother.
Voice (from the mother, off to the side): That's 30 pounds of meat, minimum!
Child (a boy with orange hair): Mom, is it okay to eat cows?
Panel 2:
Mother: Of course. They don't have souls. They're just complex stimulus-response machines.
Mother: Their suffering is without meaning.
Panel 3:
Child: Thanks, Mom!
Panel 4:
(The child, now smiling.)
Panel 5:
Child: You're not gonna eat me, are you?
Panel 6:
Mother (raising one finger): No, but it'd be OK if I did.
Votey:
A man with a wide, alarmed open-eyed expression and a speech bubble pointing toward the mother.
Voice (from the mother, off to the side): That's 30 pounds of meat, minimum!
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A small orange-haired boy asks his mother, "Mom, is it okay to eat cows?" She replies, "Of course. They don't have souls. They're just complex stimulus-response machines. Their suffering is without meaning." The boy cheerfully says, "Thanks, Mom!" Then, after a beat, he nervously asks, "You're not gonna eat me, are you?" His mother raises one finger and calmly answers, "No, but it'd be OK if I did" — the same dismissive reasoning now turned on her own child. In the votey (aftercomic), a man stares with wide, horrified eyes as a voice (the mother) declares, "That's 30 pounds of meat, minimum!", treating him as butcher's weight.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.