TrampInaTux

What about writing as if you are some really sicko bastard who kills people or whatever that tries to justify his actions. And the justifications you make actually make sense and get people thinking. I've been trying to do something like this for a while but can never think up any ways to justify killing someone for no reason.

swim

^thank you for making me start thinking. I'm going to write a themed album. I know this has been done before I just never thought of doing it myself. Not sure what it'll be about. Eh, I'll get bored and find out soon enough.

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Merkaba

Hobo, there are quite a few great stories out that portray a kind of justifiable but rediculous murder. Maybe doing a bit of fictional reading will give you some ideas. I know of one Edgar Allen Poe story where a man is planning to murder the wealthy man he works for.

The employed house worker is also the narrator and so we get his side of the story. He hates the wealthy guy for this large left eye he has (some deformity) and he also hates the ticking of his heart stabiliser that he must have had surgery for. And every night he'll go up outside the rich mans bedroom door and stand for hours on end reeling off all these stories about why the old man should die.

It's clear this guy is a nutcase but he refuses to admit it, he'll attempt to say he's unique and a perfectionist though to the reader it's obvious the guys a bit derranged for standing outside this guys door every night for months, waiting for the right time to kill him. No sane person does that.

Anyway, the night happens and he finally kills this old guy, chops him up and buries him under the floor boards.

Next morning the police stop by and say the neighbours heard a scream and wouldlike to ask a few questions. The crazy guy is so sure of himself that he invites the police in, offers them some coffee, and a seat in the old mans bedroom where he is buried! Confidence or stupidity? Anyway, they start talking, the crazy guy makes up a convincing story about the old man being out of the house away on holiday. But while the police have a private chat, the narrator starts hearing things. The ticking of the old guys heart comes out of nowhere and now the narrator is getting nervous. Sweat starts pouring off his face as he thinks the police will hear it, though it's only something he's hearing. Then the police seem to be laughing at him though they're really just telling a small joke. The guys sitting there losing his mind and finally he gives in and rips up the floor boards.

I don't know if thats the kind of thing you were after hobo, but thats a story where a man is constantly assuring himself that he is perfectly normal and that it is the old guy who is a bit freaky, but really it's the other way around.

So the reasons for justifying a murder are quite alright...to an insane person.

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right-track

Here's an idea...murder is a substitute for suicide to a deranged madman who is obsessed with death.
He kills to see what his own death would look like.

Merkaba

Jesus right-track I think you just blew my 15minute post right out of the water.

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TrampInaTux

Can I copyright this idea? PLEEEEEEEEASE. No one else use it, it's mine....

right-track

Hands over permission to hobo...it's yours.

I want royalties.

TrampInaTux

We'll see....

right-track

Damn your a hard man...I'll settle for a quid.

TrampInaTux

Hey that's a lot for you Mancs.... as we saw yesterday you seem content with settling for nothing....