sad-6
Explanation
In this comic, a patient is lying on a psychiatrist's couch. The psychiatrist offers the advice "Don't be sad. DO NOT BE SAD." The patient responds incredulously: "That's your advice? Just don't be sad?" The psychiatrist then reveals his true reasoning: "The moment your life is a net negative, it becomes acceptable for me to eat you."
The caption at the bottom reads: "Utilitarians make the worst psychiatrists."
The joke operates on multiple levels. First, there is the surface-level humor of a psychiatrist giving comically useless advice ("just don't be sad"), which satirizes the frustration many people feel with unhelpful mental health advice. But the real punchline is the utilitarian twist: the psychiatrist is a strict utilitarian who views human life purely in terms of net utility. If the patient's life becomes a "net negative" (i.e., their suffering outweighs their happiness), then from a cold utilitarian calculus, it would be acceptable -- or even optimal -- to consume them, presumably redistributing their biomass to a better use. The absurdity of a psychiatrist wanting to literally eat their patient if therapy fails is the core comedic engine. The caption ties it together by framing this as a general problem with utilitarian psychiatrists, implying this is a known occupational hazard of combining utilitarianism with mental health care.