Criticisms of utilitarianism often end up in a couple of camps, the first being extremely far fetched thought experiments, like the Utility Monster (which by the way, can be reversed on Nozick as a "property monster", which I came up with in this comic about: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259). These push utilitarianism to its end, showing that it actually causes us harm. Kind of a poor criticism, since the whole point is to make us happy, the fact that it doesn't make us happy doesn't really work. Of course we all agree with the utility monster anyway, which is why we don't value the happiness of ants as equal to ourselves, we are the utility monsters. If some greater being came along, they would probably just laser us all to use earth as a beach house anyway, so we wouldn't have to worry too much about the failure of our philosophies to account for them.
More to the point though, people like Nozick, who spend their career arguing why it's great and fine for the rich to exploit the poor, obviously don't have humanity's best interest in mind. Most utilitarians spend their time on earth trying to make life better for everyone, like arguing for women's rights, animal rights, and alleviating poverty. So yeah, take your pick I guess.
Yeah I could have worded that better, and I did read your original post. I wanted to emphasize that the real fanbase grew around the anime-style melodrama versus the earlier gag-a-day strips. Fred, by his own admission, didn't even realize the "does anyone speak l33t" comic that Rodney wrote was an Airplane! reference until years later.
Some sleeping dogs are better left lying. Perhaps had the comic died sooner, Scoot wouldn't had cursed the world with with his islamic, furaffinity tier shit.
Some sleeping dogs are better left lying. Perhaps had the comic died sooner, Scoot wouldn't had cursed the world with with his islamic, furaffinity tier shit.
It really could've gone out on a high note (well, about as high as furry "lol video games" 2000s webcomics can get) if it died out shortly BEFORE Scott started drawing official but horrific looking porn of the characters that nobody liked.
Back in high school I got really into this webcomic because I was pretty much trying to read as many webcomics as were out there. I got into it around the end of volume four when there was enough of a backlog of pages that a story was developing and you could get into the characters. The jokes about Fred taking months to put a page out were overexaggerated but sometimes it did feel like he was taking forever to get the next actual page out in between the Shirt Guy Dom strips or random art he did.
Then the double whammy of him having a kid and his wife getting leukemia caused the output to crawl to a halt and a lot of people lost interest, especially because he was no longer the only game in town, which is what helped him in the first place.
