| This has been taken (and translated) from the book Las preguntas de la vida by Fernando Savater and I think it might make an excellent game if presented as a sociological game.
Start by saying: If any of you know where is going because you already know the game then, first of all ... Hi 5, you surely are a girl that is worth.... now...
A woman take advantage of her husband leaving, due to a business trip, to met her lover; the next day, the husband, untrustworthy announces he's coming back and demands the presence of her wife at the airport to greet him. Now, in order to get to the airport one must go through a forest where a terrible killer is being hiding. Scared, she ask her lover to walk her but he denies because he's afraid to challenge the husband; then she asks for protection to the only policeman of the village, but he denies telling her he must protect the rest of the citizens with the same loyalty; she asks several neighbors but the help get denied every time, sometimes due to laziness, other due to fear. Finally she travels alone and gets murdered by the killer.
Question: Who do you think is guilty for her death?
Then let them tell you what they think... and at some point interrupt them and say:
"I usually get all kind of responses depending on the personality of the people. There are some that blame the jealousy of the husband, some that blame the cowardly of the lover, or the lack of professionalism of the policeman. Some blame the lack of solidarity of her neighbors or even the guilty conscience of the murdered woman... but few tend to answer with the obvious: that the Culprit (with capital C) is the killer that kills her. No doubt, in a lot of circumstances to every decision, but there's a main culprit, which is the one that commits the crime."
Now, from hear you can tease her/them softly from their answers. I haven't field tested this (although I plan to as soon as possible) but I find it intriguing and interesting ... mostly because I myself didn't think on the killer...
Hope you like it...
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