[mr1303]

A girl goes to her mother's funeral and meets the man of her dreams, and falls in love, but doesn't get his phone number or anything.

Two weeks later she kills her sister. Why?

[blackshoe]

Because her sister was married to the man of her dreams.

Alternate explanation: her sister had had a sex change operation, and was the man of her dreams.

[Mbodell]

mr1303, on 2013-September-28, 14:41, said:

A girl goes to her mother's funeral and meets the man of her dreams, and falls in love, but doesn't get his phone number or anything.

Two weeks later she kills her sister. Why?

The obvious answer is to try and meet the man again hoping he comes to this funeral too. But I like Blackshoe's answer.

[Aberlour10]

I think she forgot this man in the moment of the opening her mothers last will. Mother left the entire property to her sister.

[jjbrr]

the man was Kitt from Night Rider

[uday]

I'm afraid to speculate, given the title. But now I'm curious as to the answer

[FM75]

Why? For any of the usual reasons that a girl might kill her sister. There is no reason to believe that there is any causality involved.

[diana_eva]

She's the psycho and she killed her mom too?

[nige1]

mr1303, on 2013-September-28, 14:41, said:

A girl goes to her mother's funeral and meets the man of her dreams, and falls in love, but doesn't get his phone number or anything. Two weeks later she kills her sister. Why?

Mbodell, on 2013-September-28, 15:29, said:

The obvious answer is to try and meet the man again hoping he comes to this funeral too.

MBodell's explanation seems reasonable: perhaps the sisters are identical twins with the same taste in men, so they agree to a winner-takes-all duel, hoping that dream-boat comes to the funeral.

The psychopath is probably the poster who provides the most plausible rationalisation for murder

[mr1303]

Mbodell has, according to this test, proven himself as a psychopath... by getting the right answer.

Apparently most people aren't capable of thinking along those lines.

[Mbodell]

mr1303, on 2013-September-29, 20:23, said:

Mbodell has, according to this test, proven himself as a psychopath... by getting the right answer.

Apparently most people aren't capable of thinking along those lines.

If I put my mind to it, I think I could intentionally not mirror my police interrogator too. I hope being able to think what a psychopath would do isn't enough to make you a psychopath, although Alice and Luther's relationship (from the British show Luther) does make one wonder.

[Fluffy]

I failed this test years ago, but there weren't so many clues like not having the telephone number.

[kenberg]

I had regrets when I saw the answer/ In polls on bridge questions I never, well hardly ever, read responses before casting my vote. But here I figured I would scan down to see what others said. It seemed clearly right, and I will never know if I would have figured it out. I gave the question to my wife, she did not figure it out. So if I take it all seriously (I don't) then I should sleep more soundly.

I like the question a lot. I feel I should have gotten the answer had I not peeked. We will never know. But probably, as I approach my 75th birthday, the issues of whether I am or am not a psychopath has been pretty well settled.

[diana_eva]

Because of all the clues I thought the answer was too obvious So went for the non-obvious answer, which was that clues were added as a trap and killing the sister has nothing to do with meeting a guy, falling in love and having no way to contact him otherwise than at another family funeral.

[BillHiggin]

diana_eva, on 2013-September-30, 08:52, said:

Because of all the clues I thought the answer was too obvious So went for the non-obvious answer, which was that clues were added as a trap and killing the sister has nothing to do with meeting a guy, falling in love and having no way to contact him otherwise than at another family funeral.

So, Diana, what you are saying is that even though your answer showed you to be at least somewhat sane that we should be open minded about the possibility that you still might be a psychopath?

[diana_eva]

BillHiggin, on 2013-September-30, 09:28, said:

So, Diana, what you are saying is that even though your answer showed you to be at least somewhat sane that we should be open minded about the possibility that you still might be a psychopath?

Not really, it's just a puzzle. I can probably top most posters in psychopathy given that I live in Romania tho.

[y66]

That last comment was pretty funny.

So, what did Arthur Conan Doyle mean when he said "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research."?

The OED definition of sociopath is

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Originally: a person who performs criminal or antisocial acts as a result of a moderate degree of mental deficiency (disused). In later use (also hyperbolically): a person affected with sociopathy; a psychopath. Now rare in technical use.

I remember a Monty Python skit (I think) in which a passerby upbraided a fisherman for inflicting pain on fish and was told "Learn your icthyology man. Fish don't have nerve endings in their mouths".

Is that so?

From "Orion" magazine, John McPhee quotes Ted Kerasote: "We angle because we like the fight...The hook allows us to control and exert power over fish, over one of the most beautiful an seductive forms of nature, and then, because we're nice to the fish, releasing them unharmed, we can receive both psychic dispensation and blessing. Needless to say, if you think about this relationship carefully, it's not a comforting one, for it is a game of dominance followed by cathartic pardons, which, as a non-fishing friend remarked, is one of the hallmarks of an abusive relationship."

McPhee's wife tells him catch-and-release fishing is like "humane" bullfighting, where the bull isn't killed. Meat fishing is more like traditional bullfighting, she says. Then, going for the jugular, she says, "Fishing is crueler than hunting, in that your goal is to have the fish fight for its life. That's the fun. Hunting, you're trying to kill a creature outright; fishing, you want to play with it."

"That is not a fair description of your husband," he says.

"If you could just pull fish out of the water -- boom -- you wouldn't be a fisherman. Don't give me that, John," she says, apparently knowing him better than he knows himself.

[kenberg]

When young, I was told that a psychopath was unable to tell right from wrong. A sociopath could tell right from wrong but didn't care.


As for fishing, I was born in Minnesota. I am uncertain whether I learned to fish or learned to walk first. It's close.
Unless the size was under the legal size for keeping, I have never tossed one back. Catch and release has always sounded pathological to me. We catch them, we kill them, we clean them, we eat them. Why would I stick a hook in a living creature that I had no intention of eating?

[Winstonm]

Strangely enough, I identify with "the man of her dreams".

[blackshoe]

When I was a kid, my brother and I had a deal, of sorts. He liked to fish, I found it boring. I liked to eat fish, he didn't. So he would catch them, and I would eat them. The only problem was "who cleans 'em?" When my step-mother got tired of doing it (which didn't take long) my brother and I were told to figure it out. I usually ended up stuck with the job.