Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 27, 2013
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Enjoy this Classic Tom the Dancing Bug Every Thursday Panels from the annals of the Tom the Dancing Bug archive Check back every Friday for a fresh, brand new Tom the Dancing Bug! Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling OUTLAW TORTURE?! What if we capture a terrorist who knows where a TICKING NUCLEAR TIME BOMB is! Shouldn't we be allowed to TORTURE him to get him to talk? Dick Cheney's philosophical THOUGHT-EXPERIMENT LEGISLATION Man #1: There's a bomb hidden in Times Square, and this baby SWALLOWED instructions on how to defuse it! Man #2: Damn those legislators who shortsightedly outlawed ripping open live babies! Man: A terrorist cut the brakes on this trolley! Man #2: Do we switch the tracks to avoid hitting FIVE people, but thereby hitting ONE?! Man #3: We can't! It's illegal for unauthorized personnel to touch the controls! Man #1: This monkey has been randomly hitting keys for an infinite number of years! Now it's blogging the current U.S. nuclear launch codes! We must stop it! Man #2: No! Animal rights nuts have made shooting monkeys illegal!
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briannomi, the cartoon lampoons policies based on hypothetical, “what if” scenarios that are highly unlikely, especially when such policies conflict with more common, everyday practicalities. For example, it’s good policy to disallow unauthorized people from controlling trolley cars, even though one could conceivably imagine a scenario when that rule would cause a problem.