Altruism
Explanation
This comic tackles the philosophical debate about whether true altruism exists. In the first panel, one character asks whether altruism is possible, and the other responds with the common argument that "no righteous action brings happiness, making all good deeds ultimately selfish" -- the idea that if helping others makes you feel good, it's really self-serving.
The twist comes in the middle panels, set against a cosmic backdrop. The counterargument is presented: bad actions aren't caused by the same logic. If anything, bad behavior "just increases the total misery in the world." This leads to a bleak philosophical conclusion: "The nature of life in the universe is that true goodness is impossible, while true awfulness is easily achieved, often by accident."
In the final panel, the first character says "Well, now I'm miserable," and the second cheerfully replies "See? I wasn't being altruistic at all!" -- proving their own point by having made someone feel worse without any selfish benefit.
The comic explores a genuine tension in moral philosophy: the paradox that if feeling good about doing good disqualifies altruism, then the logical structure of morality is asymmetric -- selfless goodness is impossible by definition, while pure harm is easy. The punchline neatly collapses the philosophical argument into a self-demonstrating joke.