T-Rex: One day the king and queen had a baby named "Oedipus", and they were like, hey, great time for a prophecy! I wonder what the future for this kid holds! Wow, can't wait to find out!
Narrator: THE STORY OF OEDIPUS REX
T-Rex: So they go to a prophet and the prophet says "K, this baby is deffo going to kill his dad and marry his mom" and the king and queen were like, WHOA, definitely NOT what we expected. They were going to give the baby up for adoption, but the Queen said "Wait, what if he grows up and accidentally kills you mistaking you for a beggar, then solves the Riddle of the Sphinx thereby becoming king, at which point he marries me?"
Utahraptor: It was too much to risk?
T-Rex: It was WAY too much to risk!
T-Rex: So instead they killed the baby, which was murder, but they were king and queen in history times so nobody really cared - plus, by doing so they were preventing both a future murder AND an incest, so although the ethics of precrime are complicated, it certainly seemed at least ARGUABLY justifiable. THE END.
T-Rex: P.S.: thousands of years later, the story of Oedipus became a cultural shorthand, a metaphor for how complex the ethics of precrime are.
Off panel: How complex are they?
T-Rex: Utahraptor!
T-Rex: They're Oedipal complex!!
