Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic returns to the teleporter problem -- a recurring SMBC theme. A person asks a scientist whether the teleporter kills them. The scientist confirms: "Wait, when you activate the teleporter, does it kill me?" "Yes." "So you're killing people?" "Absolutely, no." The scientist then explains the ethical workaround: they ask teleporter users to voluntarily carry a puppy into the machine that makes them want to explode, thus "allowing us to explode their sole existence."

The punchline is "Nice to know the logic checks out" followed by "Please select a puppy and step into the platform." The comic satirizes how institutions use bureaucratic language and convoluted ethical frameworks to make fundamentally disturbing practices seem acceptable. By adding an absurd procedural step (choosing a puppy), the teleporter operators have created a veneer of ethical consent over what is essentially killing people. It parodies how real-world institutions sometimes use complex procedures and fine print to obscure morally questionable practices.