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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | In this comic, two men and a woman discuss how irrational society's interactions about sex are. They decide to throw out all these silly societal rules to end drama forever and spread this philosophy to everyone they know, which immediately leads to a huge increase in drama. | |
− | As one of the | + | As one of the men in the comic states, people are indeed complicated and—crucially—what seems intuitive and rational to one person might seem completely crazy and irrational to someone else; so throwing out all the rules one person thinks make no sense isn't going to mean the world suddenly makes sense for everyone else. Instead, everyone who understands the old rules, whether they like them or not, will suddenly find themselves in a completely alien world to which they have no idea how to relate. |
− | Furthermore, any one person's sense of what seems rational is based on {{w| | + | Furthermore, any one person's sense of what seems rational is based on {{w|Incomplete information|incomplete information}}. The three people in the comic trying to change all the sex rules—like the engineers referenced in the title text who thinks they can "solve" the stock market—can't even begin to conceive of all the chaotic factors affecting the system they're trying to fix, so they have no way of knowing which rules are truly crazy and which rational. |
− | + | Geek often fall prey to the fallacy that human interactions can be easily simplified if only a group of sufficiently qualified geeks put their minds to it as laid out in [http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html The Geek Social Fallacies] and [http://pervocracy.blogspot.ca/2012/02/geek-social-fallacies-of-sex.html The Geek Social Fallacies of Sex]. | |
− | + | Randall also covers similar ground in comic [[1124: Law of Drama]]. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Three people are sitting together.] |
:Megan: Man, sex has all these crazy social rules. They just create drama. | :Megan: Man, sex has all these crazy social rules. They just create drama. | ||
− | : | + | :Man #2: Let's agree to change them, and make sex simple! |
− | : | + | :Man #1: Okay! |
− | : | + | :Man: Hooray! We've solved the problem of drama! |
− | + | :Man: I'll go tell everyone! | |
− | : | + | :[The man opens a door.] |
− | :[There is a graph | + | :[There is a graph, showing time vs. drama. A vertical dotted line indicates the rule change. Drama is low before the line, then steadily increases afterward.] |
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− | :[ | + | :[The man closes and leans against the door.] |
− | : | + | :Man: Holy shit |
− | : | + | :Man: Guys |
− | : | + | :Man: People are ''complicated!'' |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
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[[Category:Sex]] | [[Category:Sex]] | ||
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