law-4
Original: law-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with reddish-brown hair and beard, wearing an orange shirt: Do you think there's a unified definition of "law"?
Woman with blonde hair and glasses, wearing a red top: Yeah, easy.
Panel 2:
Woman: Most actions don't require a law. Nobody has to vote that you can eat pancakes or enjoy a sunset. Likewise, there's no law against chewing rocks or sticking a fork in your ass.
Panel 3:
Woman: Laws are everything that's borderline; all the stuff humans ought to do but won't, and all the stuff that humans shouldn't do but will.
Panel 4:
Woman: Look at any passage of a constitution and it can naturally begin with "For God's sake, everyone..."
Panel 5:
(The man and woman seen in close-up; she looks at him.)
Panel 6:
(The two of them walking together along a sidewalk.)
Panel 7:
Man: So laws are a kind of litany of human shames.
Woman: If aliens come, they're the first thing we should hide.
Votey:
The man's face in close-up, looking uneasy.
Man: You ever imagine trying to explain to an alien why laws against murder are needed?
Man with reddish-brown hair and beard, wearing an orange shirt: Do you think there's a unified definition of "law"?
Woman with blonde hair and glasses, wearing a red top: Yeah, easy.
Panel 2:
Woman: Most actions don't require a law. Nobody has to vote that you can eat pancakes or enjoy a sunset. Likewise, there's no law against chewing rocks or sticking a fork in your ass.
Panel 3:
Woman: Laws are everything that's borderline; all the stuff humans ought to do but won't, and all the stuff that humans shouldn't do but will.
Panel 4:
Woman: Look at any passage of a constitution and it can naturally begin with "For God's sake, everyone..."
Panel 5:
(The man and woman seen in close-up; she looks at him.)
Panel 6:
(The two of them walking together along a sidewalk.)
Panel 7:
Man: So laws are a kind of litany of human shames.
Woman: If aliens come, they're the first thing we should hide.
Votey:
The man's face in close-up, looking uneasy.
Man: You ever imagine trying to explain to an alien why laws against murder are needed?
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A bearded man in an orange shirt asks a blonde woman in a red top whether there's a unified definition of "law." She says "Yeah, easy" and explains: most actions don't require a law—nobody has to vote that you can eat pancakes or enjoy a sunset, and there's no law against chewing rocks or sticking a fork in your ass. Laws, she says, are everything borderline: all the stuff humans ought to do but won't, and all the stuff they shouldn't do but will. She notes any constitution passage could begin with "For God's sake, everyone..." As the two walk together, the man concludes that laws are a kind of litany of human shames, and she replies, "If aliens come, they're the first thing we should hide." Votey: a close-up of the man looking uneasy, asking, "You ever imagine trying to explain to an alien why laws against murder are needed?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.