Showing posts with label questions for readers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label questions for readers. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2020

These questions keep me up at night, or rather, the way people approach the questions

If you can go back in time and buy stock, you have functionally infinite money. Are you really going to support some ethical black hole like Apple corporation just to make that infinite money faster? What stock would you buy if you cared about people? (I don't know. Someone please research this for me.)

And if you walk in the forest and find a person in a large glass jar, you have no information to go on when deciding to free them or not besides the fact that: Someone was able and willing to put this person in a jar. The prisoner could be evil, or their jailer could be evil. It’s impossible for you to know beforehand. There could be complexities to the situation you can’t understand. The question isn’t how you can figure out who to trust, the question is if you side with the established power structure or against it. (I fight the power. Always.)

Thursday, May 7, 2020

A scary hypothesis

This is a highly hypothetical scenario since only one third of the population of a country at most will fight in support of fascism. But if you're a humanist you should have an answer to what happens if they become the majority, such as if they get to the point of killing everyone different.

If we picture a world made up of two billion fascists and three billion collaborators, and you fighting for democracy in this world, then you're killing people to defend an ideology. You're not saving more people than you're killing, unless you really believe you can restore order to the world and save more lives in the long run, and even that is a questionable proposition. From a humanist standpoint, I cannot figure out a way to defend this. You'd have to fight fascism nonviolently, argue against this ideology strategically constructed to defeat arguments, protest for human rights and get executed, sad because this world apparently has no place for humanity in it.

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Webcomics again

You may recognize Warlock as a short story I wrote a while ago. I'm not proud of how it turned out in English, and I'm working on the translation as well as writing the sequel and now drawing this.


















Some concerns: I highly doubt these pages are readable on anything but a desktop computer with at least a 1600 pixels wide screen. Basically I'm writing for the trade and I wonder if anyone out there is "not" struggling to read this on a smartphone. Also, in the same vein, I'm trying out the Tapas platform and I worry that aside from apparently being designed primarily for smartphones, it's also enforcing a bit more narrow pages than I'd like. I would certainly welcome any form of feedback, dear reader, but if nothing else I'd like to hear about any webcomic hosting sites I should know about. I'd even be prepared to pay money to get a proper website designed and set up.

But in the meantime, if you can, enjoy this little comic.

Content warnings: Child abuse, self harm, mass murder, nudity.