Pearls Before Swine - Sunday March 28, 2010 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Rat says, "I, Rat Emeritus, have written out the mathematics of doing good for your fellow man." Goat says, "What are you talking about?" Rat says, "I'll show you? see, I start with the simple principle that giving to others produces good." Rat says, "But then I have to account for the sloth corollary." Rat says, "And the happiness principle." Rat says, "And the futility algorithm." Rat says, "Then I add it all up, carry the 3 divide by 2, and arrive at my grand theorem of how one should conduct oneself." Goat says, "Which is what?" Sign says, "Do nothing." Goat says, "Nothing. How obvious." Rat says, "Well... not really nothing. You can sit around and drink beer."

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