immortal-2
Original: immortal-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Person A (a small figure, far off): Do you think humans will achieve immortality one day?
Person B (a person with dark curly hair, in a green coat, walking across a snowy landscape at night): Yeah, but just for one second.
Panel 2:
Person A (close-up, a person with reddish-brown hair): Look, is it okay to kill a future Hitler?
Person B (dark curly hair, seen from behind, green shirt): Sure. Yeah?
Panel 3:
Person A: What are the odds of YOU becoming a future Hitler?
Person B (climbing a snowy slope): Pretty low.
Person A: But not zero!
Panel 4 (close-up on Person B, dark curly hair, wide-eyed):
Person B: If we all have INFINITE lifespans and FINITE Hitler-potential, it is ALWAYS ethical to kill anybody! The moment immortality is achieved, ethically speaking, EVERYONE MUST DIE.
Panel 5 (two tiny silhouettes standing atop a tall snowy mountain peak):
Person B: My God. Our greatest dream is our greatest nightmare.
Person A: On the plus side, trolley problems will be way easier.
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Hitlerness/Hour . ∞ hours = infinitler"
Person A (a small figure, far off): Do you think humans will achieve immortality one day?
Person B (a person with dark curly hair, in a green coat, walking across a snowy landscape at night): Yeah, but just for one second.
Panel 2:
Person A (close-up, a person with reddish-brown hair): Look, is it okay to kill a future Hitler?
Person B (dark curly hair, seen from behind, green shirt): Sure. Yeah?
Panel 3:
Person A: What are the odds of YOU becoming a future Hitler?
Person B (climbing a snowy slope): Pretty low.
Person A: But not zero!
Panel 4 (close-up on Person B, dark curly hair, wide-eyed):
Person B: If we all have INFINITE lifespans and FINITE Hitler-potential, it is ALWAYS ethical to kill anybody! The moment immortality is achieved, ethically speaking, EVERYONE MUST DIE.
Panel 5 (two tiny silhouettes standing atop a tall snowy mountain peak):
Person B: My God. Our greatest dream is our greatest nightmare.
Person A: On the plus side, trolley problems will be way easier.
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Hitlerness/Hour . ∞ hours = infinitler"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic set at night in a snowy mountain landscape. Two people, one with dark curly hair in a green coat and one with reddish-brown hair, talk as they trek. Person A asks if humans will achieve immortality one day; Person B says yeah, but just for one second. Person A then asks whether it's okay to kill a future Hitler; Person B agrees. Person A asks the odds of Person B becoming a future Hitler. Person B says pretty low, and Person A says but not zero. In a close-up, a wide-eyed Person B reasons: if we all have infinite lifespans and finite Hitler-potential, it is always ethical to kill anybody, so the moment immortality is achieved, ethically speaking, everyone must die. In the final wide panel, the two tiny figures stand atop a tall snowy peak. Person B says, My God, our greatest dream is our greatest nightmare. Person A replies, On the plus side, trolley problems will be way easier. Votey (aftercomic): a handwritten equation on a blank page reading Hitlerness per Hour times infinity hours equals infinitler.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.