T-Rex: Ever wonder if your friends don't REALLY like you?
T-Rex: Ever wonder if they're all just pretending??
T-Rex: Clearly that's CRAZY, since there's no real motivation for anyone to do that. But what if your friends SINCERELY like you, but only because you've TRICKED them, having so successfully hidden your TRUE self, which they will of course despise once they discover it??
T-Rex: Is that a fun hypothetical you obsess about sometimes??
Utahraptor: Actually, I never worry that one either!
T-Rex: Wait, really?
Utahraptor: Listen, if all my pals have secretly been tricked into friendship with me, the result is FUNCTIONALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE from actual friendship. So who cares?
T-Rex: But what if they find out? THEN WHAT??
Off panel: Then clearly I'm SO GREAT at deception that there's nothing preventing me from doing it again, INDEFINITELY, with a new group of people! Problem solved forever; get on my level!
T-Rex: That -
T-Rex: That does sound like a nice level; thank you for the invitation
