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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Creative exercise for the paranoid


A thought after yet another detective TV show in which an almost impossible preponderance of circumstantial evidence tells you despite all of it, this is not the criminal because it is just too early in the broadcast:

OK, here is the exercise:  Quickly, ignoring random violence or something that happened in the commission of another crime (say, robbery), if you, yourself, were found murdered, who would the prime suspect be?  Don't think it through, you probably already have the answer.  Who was the first person who came to mind?

Now turn it around.  In whose murder would you be the prime suspect?

Most of us live lives much less dramatic than a television detective show, so answers might not come very easily.  I had a quick answer for one of them, but not the other and don't expect it to be revealed.  After all, neither of us might have a provable alibi in case something were ever to happen to the other and saying it here might end up being part of that circumstantial evidence.

All sitcoms tonight.

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