And comic strips aren't meant to be taken literally as situations with nuance and reversibility. It's an artist sharing a message of their own, you can take it or leave it, to "both sides" it makes me deeply puzzled.
If it were any other period in history I would be astonished that anyone could take the actions of an artistic device as literal interpretations of events, real or hypothetical... but then I remind myself that millions of men have just explained to women why bears are more dangerous when presented with the question which was feared more, so I am now convinced that nobody can see outside their own bubble-universes anymore.