soul-6
Explanation
This comic is about a man who gave his soul to Satan and the unexpected consequences.
In the first panel, the man explains: "So I gave my soul, man" to Satan, and someone asks "to Satan?" He confirms, saying he "just couldn't stand having an internal, immaterial essence."
In the second panel, the man elaborates on the benefits: "Now I'm free. I can't be blamed for anything. I'm just chemicals doing chemical stuff. When I do the judge all goes 'no more.' Having no soul makes it really hard for anyone to make a judgmental, guilty..." He trails off, implying that without a soul, he cannot be held morally accountable.
Another person interjects: "Don't the good parts go too? Go to hell?" And someone responds: "That's everybody's problem."
The comic satirizes a philosophical position: strict materialism or the denial of the soul. The man who "sold his soul to Satan" is really a stand-in for someone who has adopted a purely materialist worldview where humans are just "chemicals doing chemical stuff" with no immaterial essence. He sees this as liberating because it seems to eliminate moral responsibility -- if there is no soul, there is no basis for moral judgment.
But the punchline exposes the flaw: if you deny the soul to escape blame, you also lose the basis for anything good -- meaning, purpose, moral credit. And the person pointing out "that's everybody's problem" suggests that this is not a personal philosophical choice but a societal issue: when a culture broadly abandons the concept of the soul (or moral essence), the negative consequences affect everyone, not just the individual who made the choice.