One of my favorite authors is a man named, Raymond Smullyan who is best known for his Alice in Wonderland approach to logic. He turns recursivity back upon itself and makes even the notion of a paradox paradoxical. Among his simplest riddles is the one below which I think would make a great exercise for [...]
26Jan10
Responsibility: Easy as A, B, C?
By: Barry Belmont
By: Barry Belmont
How might one go about combining serial killing, a hysterically bad YouTube clip from a Spike Lee movie, and question where the criminal responsibility would lie if in the act of serial killing one were coerced by a Satanic dog all into one post? Something like this I would imagine.
