DISQUS

I think it favors the "one true god" scenario better. If there were multiple heavens and such, then allowing one to take someone who was destined for another, especially without their consent, would negate the ideal of heaven entirely. I think that the grandson was destined for the realm of the afterlife reserved for non-believers and the grandfather helped him to reach a higher existence.

Both scenarios are feasible, but the "one true god/heaven" makes a lot more sense, and requires a lot less supposition.

I love how the second panel makes an allusion to warfare, what with the cannon. Great way to turn things completely around like that.

Is it called "The Rationalizer?"

I love how all the people in his imagination are smiley faces.

This reminds me of when Brak had a monkey write a report for him. "My name is Bobo, I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana, ook-ook." He got an F.

To expound upon what Francisco said about the "unfortunate" being stressed in the second panel: Perhaps the man had intended to damage his dragonfly after finally becoming tired of it's constant stare. Tragically, once he had done so he lost the constant recognition and attention that he'd become used to receiving which then made him wonder if he truly existed once that constant recognition of his existence was abolished.

Objectivism says nothing in detriment to charitable acts so long as that charity is voluntary. The entire idea of objectivism, at least what I've taken from it, is that motivation and ideals should be intrinsic, self-taught. If such an ideal is to help people who can't help themselves, then so be it. The fact remains that it is still what the individual in question *wants* to do. That is the "Virtue of Selfishness." A lot of people get the ideas of Objectivism confused with blind, heartless capitalism. Yes, many of those who engage in the larcenous activities of modern industry could be considered "objectivists," but that isn't the spirit of the ideal.

I always wondered the same thing when I saw the old Burger King commercials featuring Mr. Potato Head back when Toy Story came out. I would ask my friends, all of whom were about twelve, "Is Mr. Potato Head promoting the genocide of his own species?" They'd all look at me weird and then start throwing things.

It's a commentary on addiction. Not just drug addiction, but any addiction. This is why too much of a good thing can be so horribly tragic. It begins to take more and more of that good thing to make it still seem good, which means you need to devote more and more of your life to acquiring that good thing... Okay, I'm just stating the obvious now.

PETA actually stands for People Encouraging Terrorist Actions. I used to fund-raise for them, actually. They are such awful hypocrites.

The middle is "Lord of the Flies." Note the *Boar's* head. Not a pig, a boar. Also, the flies...

I think the bottom left is "A Clockwork Orange" as well, but I wasn't aware that it was a novel.

Ah, how petty infighting degenerates when there are no more pawns to sacrifice. Note how they are willing to send others to die for their aims, but they'd not put themselves into such danger.

I think you mean pretty much everyone from Naruto.

I think there is a lot that could be said about paradigms by this strip. On the one hand, he's destroying the intelligence that had formed in his little house-bot by resetting it into an automaton. In another point of view, he's keeping that intelligence from suffering in its own mindless, pointless existence in the first place. Either way it's rather inhumane and unsettling.

Robot Farm?