Social scientist in Scandinavia have devised a question, a sort of riddle, designed to identify psychopaths and serial killers. Apparently if you can puzzle the answer out there's something very wrong with you.
The riddle goes as follows:
A man's mother dies.
He attends the funeral. At the funeral, he sees a beautiful woman.
After the funeral he looks for the beautiful woman, to try and talk to her, but he cannot find her anywhere; she's gone.
Two weeks later, the man kills his own brother.
Why?
The answer is, he kills his own brother in the hopes that the beautiful woman, presumably a friend of the family, will show up at the funeral, and he can meet her. If you can figure this out, it means you possess the psychological detachment any good serial killer needs to do his job well.
Scarily enough, my friend's mother, a sweet woman in her fifties, figured this out immediately.
Did you?
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 Feb 7 2012, 4:03 am
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Feb 7 2012, 5:23 am
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EmpirezTeam
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I assumed the man killed his brother because two weeks later, he saw them dating or whatever and he wanted her for himself.
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Yes.
But information on its aimed to identify psychopaths, makes it kinda obvious it would be a silly reason. So kinda makes the question leading and easy. Through im not arguing with the scientists theories.. What people come up shouldn't be taken too seriously, and there's too many extraneous variables to consider. At best i think only a relationship could be drawn up and not cause and effect. @ET. Thats what someone else i know, thought. | |
I actually thought that he was just a serial killer that first killed his mother, then went on to kill his brother. Essentially I took out the entire funeral out of the equation because it didn't seem relevant.
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His brother ate the last pizza piece :o
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Wait, so people who can find a logical connection from the only facts presented are psychologically unbalanced even if they find the implied motive horrific? I see a flaw....
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