Comic for Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025

Commentary

Posted April 2, 2025 at 12:00 am

"Oh great. I guess I care about these people now."

I originally wrote "a lot of people" in the first panel, but no. Jay is more cynical than that. Most people making a generous offer like that would DEFINITELY be doing it for personal gain.

Actually, come to think of it, I genuinely don't know what the statistics on that would be. Maybe she's right? I guess it depends on how you define "most"?

Come to think of it, "most" is one of those words that are so open to interpretation that it's actually dangerous. 51% would be "the most" even if the other side has 49%, and that doesn't feel like a significant enough distinction to say "most" even if technically correct. I think of numbers like 80-99% when I say most, but how do others interpret it when I say that? How often am I interpreting what others mean by "most" wrong?

ANYWAY, I'm just going to pretend she's totally wrong about that, and the majority of people who would offer to help out Hope in this situation would be doing it for all the right reasons.

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