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Also, Wagner is a Steelers fan and I'm rooting for them out of spite.
The other cops don't know how ignorant they are of what justice really is.
They have a good point though, comedy was a mistake.
The Vienna Circle was a group of intellectuals in the early 20th century who were radically committed to the idea that empirical science was the only knowledge (known as "Logical Positivism"). They were heavily influenced by Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which gave a similar account of knowledge, and likewise rejected metaphysics. One of their big dreams was to construct an "exact scientific language", which would be able to describe scientific observations in a precise way with no ambiguities (similar to how mathematical languages can make proofs where there are no disputes on the meaning of what is being said). They thought most of the philosophical disagreements arose from the inexactness of natural language, and would dissolve if their dream project could be completed.
Wittgenstein later came to believe that this sort of project was impossible, because language fundamentally wasn't the sort of thing that could be rigorously defined. He came to think that language wasn't merely a tool used to describe the world, but a kind of human activity that could take arbitrary forms. In fact he said that language could take an infinite number of forms, besides the merely denoscriptive truth functions that the Vienna Circle wanted to fit it into. He said language could be anything, such as "giving orders and obeying them, making up a story and reading it, play-acting, making a joke and telling it; translating from one language into another; asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, praying". John Searle later pointed out that, in typical philosopher fashion, he claimed that something was "an infinite number of things" and then went on to list twelve or so things.
Whether or not an "exact scientific language" is ultimately possible, and whether or not one would be able to tell jokes in such a language is an exercise left to the reader, but we do know that if it is possible to make such a language and tell jokes, the jokes would probably be pretty lame, at best.
Also...God isn't real, just so you know.
David Hume is most famous for not believing that there was any ultimately rational reason to believe in inductive reasoning. So theoretically, his child should take no more heed of being told something "a thousand times" than once. He also thought there was no rational reason to be moral, and morality was just a kind of sentiment that we felt, so Santa might just one day feel like not giving presents to the good kids anymore, and no recourse to logic could dissuade him. His argument against miracles was essentially that a miracle was an observation that went against the "laws of nature". But the laws of nature as we understand are just what we have observed to happen, so reports of miracles are by their very nature a tiny minority report of what usually occurs - an outlier. If we are to apply our normal reasoning process for empiricism, we should then discard them, always, since the number of observations that goes against them always outnumbers the number for them.
A t-shirt of panel three is available in the store.
Also, for copyright reasons, the characters show are from the Aladdin that was made on Twin Earth. Twin Earth is exactly like normal Earth, except they never made any live action reboots.