I think that the person who wrote the black text, knows best what that symbol is supposed to be. That person is presumably the original author of the comic, and the person who created the symbol in the first place. I can’t think of a way any other person can possibly know better what the symbol is supposed to be.
Within the context of the scenario in the comic, the comic author doesn’t exist, and some person wrote the symbol on the ground. In pretty much any realistic scenario, that person intended a specific reading of the symbol.
that symbol on the ground is a metaphor for more complex problems that have multiple faces. The “realistic scenario” isn’t a literal number painted on the ground. It’s more like the Ronald Cotton case mentioned further above, where there was eye witness testimony and physical evidence which pointed toward him committing the crime, but there was also DNA evidence which showed that he didn’t.
Within the context of the scenario in the comic, the comic author doesn’t exist, and some person wrote the symbol on the ground. In pretty much any realistic scenario, that person intended a specific reading of the symbol.
that symbol on the ground is a metaphor for more complex problems that have multiple faces. The “realistic scenario” isn’t a literal number painted on the ground. It’s more like the Ronald Cotton case mentioned further above, where there was eye witness testimony and physical evidence which pointed toward him committing the crime, but there was also DNA evidence which showed that he didn’t.