Rationalization

[unixronin]

Q:  What do you do when you and two of your buddies, in a drunken haze, beat another acquaintance to death over a period of 24 hours or so, wrap his naked body in a tarpaulin and hide it in his garage, then get turned in to the police ten days later by a third friend to whom you boasted of the murder (and to whom you emailed camera-phone photos, at work, during the process)?

A:  If you live in Crotherton, Indiana, you claim that he was gay¹, and that it's therefore OK because you were afraid Teh Gay would get on you.

[1]  He wasn't.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, it's true it's impossible to know for sure. But considering that the only people claiming he was gay are the ones who killed him, who get a defence — albeit a thin and repellent one — out of the claim, and everyone else is saying "No he wasn't", I know which way the preponderance of the evidence lies.