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execute

Original: execute on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:

A woman with long red hair (speaking): I wanna be put in a Star Trek teleporter that TECHNICALLY kills me, then reconstructs me on the other side of the room, with a body and mind that are identical in every way except that they are not guilty of kidnapping and eating 27 joggers.

Caption (below the panel): Philosophers are no longer allowed to choose their mode of execution.

Votey:

The red-haired woman (speaking): Eating the joggers was justified on a deontological basis.

Alt text

A two-panel webcomic. In the main panel, a uniformed police officer stands beside a smiling woman with long red hair, who is speaking. She says she wants to be put in a Star Trek teleporter that technically kills her then reconstructs her on the other side of the room with a body and mind identical in every way, except that they are not guilty of kidnapping and eating 27 joggers. A caption beneath the panel reads: 'Philosophers are no longer allowed to choose their mode of execution.' In the votey aftercomic, a simple line-drawn close-up of the same red-haired woman's face adds her parting line in a speech bubble: 'Eating the joggers was justified on a deontological basis.' The joke is a philosopher cheerfully gaming a teleporter's identity loophole to escape execution for cannibalism, then doubling down with an ethics-jargon justification.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.