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CirclMastr -> Blame Game (6/3/2007 11:27:10 PM)
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Hey everyone, let's play the Blame Game! Read the following story in which a murder occurs, then rank the characters from most culpable for the murder to least culpable.
Note the first: I didn't make this story up, and there are different versions of it floating around the internet. I chose the simplest version that has the least detail. After all, the fewer details included, the more you have to fill in yourself.
Note the second: Some versions allege that the different characters stand for something, but I don't really subscribe to that notion. Besides, it's more fun to hear everyone's rationale for their rankings than pretend that there's an arbitrary 'correct' one for a given personality type.
The story goes like this:
Out in the woods a woman and her husband live alone in a cabin. One day the husband says that he has to go to town on business. His wife begs him to take her along, offering many reasons except for the real one: she has a lover on the other side of the river, but is trying to be faithful to her husband, and she knows that if her husband leaves her alone she will be unable to resist the temptation to see her lover. But her husband won't listen to her entreaties, and leaves her alone.
So she goes to visit her lover. Her lover lives on the other side of the river. There are two ways to cross the river: a bridge and a ferry. However, under the bridge lives a troll who kills everyone who tries to cross. So the woman gathers all her money and finds that it is just enough to pay the boatman for one crossing. So she takes the ferry across the river and visits her lover.
The next morning she wakes up and realizes that she needs to return home before her husband gets back. She asks her lover for some money to pay the boatman, but he refuses to give her any. So she walks to the river and explains to the boatman that she desperately needs to cross the river, but has no money. He refuses to let her on board and rows away. Out of options, the woman takes her chances with the bridge. Halfway across, she is killed by the troll.
Rank the characters from most culpable to least culpable. Here they are in alphabetical order: BOATMAN, HUSBAND, LOVER, TROLL, WIFE.
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