Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)
bhtooefr:
I wonder if Emily may have congenital analgesia...
cesium133:
"No, no. It's an analgesic. The pills go in your mouth."
BenRG:
I think that bhtooefr is asking if Emily may have reduced or even absent pain sense. I don't think so; people with that condition tend to be a bit of a mess because of little scrapes and scratches that they never notice and get infected.
I just think that she has a mental 'threshold' of pain and/or injury beneath which she just doesn't bother worrying about. That's why she didn't panic about the snake: She knew that she wasn't in danger from venom so the pain was just a data point to be dealt with later on. That Marten was cutely chivalrous for her as a result of the injury was a bonus.
I suppose it is a bit worrying for Emily's friends. After all, if she assesses any pain beneath a certain threshold of possible harm as irrelevant, she could do some pretty alarming stuff to herself on the grounds that repairing herself afterwards is fairly trivial. The rubber mallet incident comes to mind. Or possibly: "Fingernails grow back and I hate messed-up manicures."
Random832:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 03 Apr 2016, 20:00 ---I'm just wondering how the government keeps finding out about all these Emily-created threats to national security just after the fact. Could it be someone's a mole? I nominate Pintsize; his clownish antics would be a perfect cover.
--- End quote ---
Also, what could it possibly be, that allows the government to step in to classify something that someone independently develops that's "too similar" to it? The only stuff that's born secret in real life is nuclear weapons technology.
Is it cold in here?:
National security holds on patents have been around for a while.
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