T-Rex: Good news, everyone! I've decided to invent PERSONAL LONGTERMISM. That's right! My every choice will now be guided NOT by what is best for me right now...
T-Rex: ...but by what is best for the mes in some distant, imagined future!
Dromiceiomimus: Hey T-Rex, you wanna go get some ice cream?
T-Rex: Alas, but I cannot! For since one can imagine scores of Future Selves, all occupying various moments in my life-to-come and all of whom naturally want to be in peak physical condition, eating something sweet could be seen as a crime against their health!
T-Rex: And SURELY the wellness of THOUSANDS of potential mes outweighs the desires of the one real one alive now!
Utahraptor: WOW.
Utahraptor: So you have to be unhappy, today, right now, in order that people who DON'T EVEN EXIST YET AND MAY NEVER EXIST have it slightly easier?
T-Rex: Yes! And what if future me has KIDS? And THEY have kids?? That's TRILLIONS of lives hanging in the balance on EVERYTHING I DO!!
T-Rex: And since trillions outweigh the mere BILLIONS alive today, I am, therefore, the most important person on the planet.
Off panel: There's SEVERAL errors in -
T-Rex: SILENCE! YOU WILL HURT THE FEELINGS OF THE PRECURSOR OF TRILLIONS OF LIVES AND THAT'S THE WORST THING IT'S POSSIBLE TO DO
