trolley-8
Original: trolley-8 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Speaker (a person, drawn from the chest up, addressing the reader): "You are in a runaway trolley that can predict the future. You can either kill a group of 500 people who are all past reproductive age OR you can drive over one guy's nuts. That guy was going to have 500 progeny who will not exist if you use the trolley to absolutely sack-blast him. Which choice is more ethical...?"
Caption below the panel: "Studying Population Ethics has completely obliterated my belief in consistent moral frameworks."
Votey:
A person's face (smiling, with wavy hair) speaks in a large speech bubble: "Plow the crowd or shard the nard-- that is the question that vexes us."
Speaker (a person, drawn from the chest up, addressing the reader): "You are in a runaway trolley that can predict the future. You can either kill a group of 500 people who are all past reproductive age OR you can drive over one guy's nuts. That guy was going to have 500 progeny who will not exist if you use the trolley to absolutely sack-blast him. Which choice is more ethical...?"
Caption below the panel: "Studying Population Ethics has completely obliterated my belief in consistent moral frameworks."
Votey:
A person's face (smiling, with wavy hair) speaks in a large speech bubble: "Plow the crowd or shard the nard-- that is the question that vexes us."
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A person, drawn from the chest up and facing the reader, poses an elaborate trolley-problem variant: you are in a runaway trolley that can predict the future, and you must either kill a group of 500 people who are all past reproductive age, or run over one man's testicles. That one man was going to father 500 children who won't exist if the trolley is used to, in the comic's words, 'absolutely sack-blast him.' The character asks which choice is more ethical. A caption beneath reads: 'Studying Population Ethics has completely obliterated my belief in consistent moral frameworks.' Votey (aftercomic): a smiling person's face with wavy hair muses in a speech bubble, 'Plow the crowd or shard the nard-- that is the question that vexes us,' parodying Hamlet's soliloquy.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.