kant

A four-panel comic. In the first panel, a man with red flame-like hair enthusiastically tells an older man, Immanuel Kant, that he really likes Kant's idea of living life by a set of universal axioms. In the second panel Kant says people are an end in themselves, always, and the red-haired man cheers "Yeah! Yes!" In the third panel Kant continues that this is why you can't have casual sex, even if it's consensual, because it is degrading to both partners. In the final panel the red-haired man, now deflated with hands clasped, mutters that one begins to see the virtue of utility maximization. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of Kant with his eyes closed states: "One must only create ethical maxims if they can universally apply according to the views of 18th century German men."