I tried remembering this cartoon the next day, and found I had trouble getting the wording right for "Ah. Strictly speaking, it's better than the alternative."
and realized that the author hadn't quite got this right either. It seems to rely on the a priori assumption that using a condom is always better than not doing so, no matter what you're doing... What I had trouble doing was managing to smuggle that assumption into the text.
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Date: 2008-08-17 01:07 pm (UTC)"Ah. Strictly speaking, it's better than the alternative."
and realized that the author hadn't quite got this right either. It seems to rely on the a priori assumption that using a condom is always better than not doing so, no matter what you're doing... What I had trouble doing was managing to smuggle that assumption into the text.
But yes, they're doing something wrong.