ethics-5
Original: ethics-5 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: PHILOSOPHY TIP: ANY BEHAVIOR IS MORALLY ACCEPTABLE IF YOU MAKE THE SCENARIO STUPID ENOUGH
Chart heading: ETHICALNESS OF DRUNK DRIVING
The chart is a grid (heat map). Y-axis label (vertical, left side): BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION. X-axis label (bottom): NEARBY HITLER CONCENTRATION.
A vertical color-gradient legend on the right runs from red at top labeled MORE ETHICAL down to blue at bottom labeled LESS ETHICAL.
The grid cells are shaded between red and blue. Roughly, the top-right region (high blood alcohol, high nearby Hitler) trends red/more ethical, and the bottom-left and lower regions trend blue/less ethical, with purple in between.
Votey:
(SEVERAL PEOPLE SUGGESTED A TINY UPPER RIGHT BOX WHERE DRUNKENNESS BECOMES UNETHICAL BECAUSE YOU'LL MISS THE HITLERS. BUT ONE MUST ASSUME CONCENTRATED, HOMOGENOUS, WELL-MIXED FASCISTS.)
Chart heading: ETHICALNESS OF DRUNK DRIVING
The chart is a grid (heat map). Y-axis label (vertical, left side): BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION. X-axis label (bottom): NEARBY HITLER CONCENTRATION.
A vertical color-gradient legend on the right runs from red at top labeled MORE ETHICAL down to blue at bottom labeled LESS ETHICAL.
The grid cells are shaded between red and blue. Roughly, the top-right region (high blood alcohol, high nearby Hitler) trends red/more ethical, and the bottom-left and lower regions trend blue/less ethical, with purple in between.
Votey:
(SEVERAL PEOPLE SUGGESTED A TINY UPPER RIGHT BOX WHERE DRUNKENNESS BECOMES UNETHICAL BECAUSE YOU'LL MISS THE HITLERS. BUT ONE MUST ASSUME CONCENTRATED, HOMOGENOUS, WELL-MIXED FASCISTS.)
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An SMBC comic. A yellow title banner reads: "PHILOSOPHY TIP: ANY BEHAVIOR IS MORALLY ACCEPTABLE IF YOU MAKE THE SCENARIO STUPID ENOUGH." Below it is a heat-map chart titled "ETHICALNESS OF DRUNK DRIVING." The vertical axis is labeled "BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION" and the horizontal axis is labeled "NEARBY HITLER CONCENTRATION." A color legend on the right goes from red ("MORE ETHICAL") at the top to blue ("LESS ETHICAL") at the bottom. The grid is shaded so that the high-alcohol, high-Hitler corner skews red/more ethical while lower regions skew blue/less ethical, with purple in between. The joke: drunk driving becomes "more ethical" the more nearby Hitlers there are to run over. The votey (aftercomic) is a hand-drawn caption box reading: "(SEVERAL PEOPLE SUGGESTED A TINY UPPER RIGHT BOX WHERE DRUNKENNESS BECOMES UNETHICAL BECAUSE YOU'LL MISS THE HITLERS. BUT ONE MUST ASSUME CONCENTRATED, HOMOGENOUS, WELL-MIXED FASCISTS.)"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.