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− | [[Cueball]] on the left, here | + | [[Cueball]] on the left, here representing [[Randall]] as given in the title text, comments on the absence of physical enforcement for {{w|Norm (social)|social norms}}. Hi tells his Cueball-like friend that he is sometimes shocked to realize how many options he has. Cueball then goes through a list of possible things he could do that only his conscience and learned social morals (and his cerebrum) prevents him from doing, including stripping naked, taking a plane to {{w|Fiji}} or just punching his conversation partner for no reason at all, with all the "interesting" ensuing events that would result, potentially life changing (he could go to prison for instance). |
− | Cueball continues | + | Cueball continues to explain that he do understand the mental rules and also the reason. But continues to say that at least once in his life he should exercise that ''freedom'', hence the title. This is enough to convince his friend who promptly exercises his right and punches Cueball in the face. This was the exact right moment to do so, because Cueball cannot be real mad, as he had just lamented on how everyone should do so at least once. |
− | + | From the floor he also comments that he should have seen this coming, but that he didn't was the beauty as his friend states. Because only when the "freedom" is used to do something completely unexpected have the person doing so denounced his mental rule-set. | |
− | The title text is a restatement of the first line of the comment, but reversed to show that Randall is terrified about his realization that the same freedoms apply to other people. | + | Later Randall specifically invites people to hit him in the face if he uses Klout, [[1057: Klout]]. Thus after that he could be confused as of why people actually hit him. |
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+ | The title text is a restatement of the first line of the comment, but reversed to show that Randall is terrified about his realization that the same freedoms apply to other people. (For instance everyone drives on the same side of the road, for a given country. But no one prevents anyone from driving down the wrong side of the road, although usually such people would not last long...) | ||
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+ | This is also an ironic reference to {{w|Zechariah Chafee}}'s oft-quoted [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zechariah_Chafee line]: | ||
+ | :"Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins." | ||
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+ | "Getting on a plane to Fiji" is a reference to film {{w|The Truman Show}}. In the film Truman is the only one who doesn't know that his world is a film set with him as the only true-man on set. His first serious love affair, an actress, tries to tell him about the show, and is then taken of the show going to Fiji. Later Truman [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/quotes?item=qt0462320 tries] in vain to go to Fiji and mentions such a trip [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/quotes?item=qt1902201 more than once]. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Friend: Oh? | :Friend: Oh? | ||
− | :[The text is written above a half | + | :[The text is written above a half hight frame with a zoom in on Cueball who shakes his fist.] |
:Cueball: Like, at any moment in any conversation, I could just punch the person I was talking to, and all these potentially life-changing events would unfold. | :Cueball: Like, at any moment in any conversation, I could just punch the person I was talking to, and all these potentially life-changing events would unfold. | ||
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:Friend: Hmm. | :Friend: Hmm. | ||
− | :[In very big black letters written | + | :[In very big black letters written top to bottom between the two panels:] |
− | : | + | :'''''Wham''''' |
:[Cueball is knocked to the ground, dazed (three stars over his head) and bruised while his friend is looking down at him with his fist raised.] | :[Cueball is knocked to the ground, dazed (three stars over his head) and bruised while his friend is looking down at him with his fist raised.] | ||
:Cueball: Okay, I should have seen that coming. | :Cueball: Okay, I should have seen that coming. | ||
:Friend: But you ''couldn't!'' That's the beauty! | :Friend: But you ''couldn't!'' That's the beauty! | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
− | [[Category:Multiple | + | [[Category:Multiple Cueball]] |
[[Category:Philosophy]] | [[Category:Philosophy]] |