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{{comic | number = 5112 | date = December 7, 2018 | title = fuzzy-borders | image = 1544190421-20181207.png | votey = 154419052220181207after.png | titletext = What if all assassinations are by time travelers who keep trying to fix things, but keep breaking things somewhere else? }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Would it be ethical to go, back in time to kill baby hitler? :At the extremes, it's clearly okay to kill baby hitler and clearly not okay to kill, say, baby helen keller. :Hmm. It seems like it would but then you get a fuzzy border problem. :If you take all human beings who ever lived and order them by okay-to-murder-ness, is there a cutoff point for time-traveling murder? Can you kill the median baby? The average baby? :That's easy. You just scale the punishment to the position in the list. It's okay to murder baby hitler. The median baby deserves a spanking baby helen kellers get a piece of candy and a friendly pat on the head. :So. If time travel were possible. You'd expect that some times babies just start crying for no reason while you're out of the room. :But then that means :Time-traveling baby-spankers. :The most parsimonious :Explanation. :smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Actually that job is probably automated in the future. Joba {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Comics featuring the snow kids]]
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