Abnormal Psychology (11-18-05)

[crazyvampchick]

Drusilla is reading over last week's essays and growing increasingly angry. She glares at Cameron, then scribbles on an essay, then glares at Cameron again.

"Murder," she snaps, after everyone has signed in. "What drives one to murder another? Ignore petty questions of self-defense or euthanasia. This isn't an ethical debate. What causes one person to murder another? Is it insanity?"

"We're going to work on class projects. Joint class projects. This counts as your midterm grade." Drusilla looks irritated at the thought of handing out projects. "You're going to develop psychological experiments to be run on your fellow students." She thinks for a minute. "You should probably have their permission first, so do a permission slip. And don't hurt the little boys and girls irreversibly. Don't run the experiment, though. That comes later, after your midterms have been approved and the player gets OOC permission from the mods for you to do them."

She looks around. "Pair up. Cameron, you get to be partnered with whoever's left over, or if someone is out today. Then each of you discuss what you'd like to do, and write a 100 word proposal for your experiment. We'll talk about experimental design another time." Drusilla's smile was malicious. "And at that time, we'll introduce you all to hell statistical analysis."

Drusilla looks angry. "Cameron Mitchell. Vala Mal Doran. See me after class. Separately."

"Anyone who has missed a class essay needs to make it up or I'll start giving detentions for missed homework. This includes excused absences. If you'd rather not go back and look up what was missed, come and see me and we'll work out a special project for you to do to make up your grade."

Sawyer: C+ (failure to hand in essay, good participation)
Paige Matthews: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Bagoas: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Medusa: D- (failure to participate in discussion, did not hand in make up assignment)
Draco Malfoy: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Callisto: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Faith Lehane: A (good participation, good understanding of the word yo, well thought out essay)
Jessica Atreides: B+ (good participation, good essay)
Broots: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Teacher's Note: Multiple personalities? You obviously don't understand. (The A and has been stricken out and replaced with a C.)
Mystique: B+ (excellent essay, failure to add to discussion)
Jonathan suck up Crane: A (good participation, well thought out essay even if he didn't get the point)
Samuel Anders: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Wednesday Addams: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Jack Harkness: D- (failure to hand in essay, minimal participation)

Excused Absences (11/6/05):
Vala Mal Doran
Jack O'Neill
Oz

Unexcused Absences - Detention
Julian Sark - Is He A Cat Again?

OOC: This was supposed to go up yesterday, but things were insane, and I'm still driving my husband to and from the train station. That ends today, thank God. We can slow-play this as necessary.

Comments

DISCUSSION: MURDER

[crazyvampchick]

Discuss how you feel about murder here. Professor Drusilla listens to you all attentively.

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

There are many things that could drive a person to murder. Jealousy is one. Sometimes you decide that if you can't have someone then no one can. Another is duty. If someone told you to kill somebody and bad things would happen to you, you would do it. It's hard to kill someone under these circumstances but there is no way out of it really. You do it to keep yourself alive.

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[crazyvampchick]

"Jealousy?" asks Drusilla. "Tell me more about jealousy and murder."

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

"When you think that the person you love has eyes for someone who is better or more talented than you, you obviously want to do what you can to make sure they are out of their life forever. Sometimes murder is the only option."

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

((ha! Lily loves me best!!! *dances*))

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

There are many types of murder. I think that some might even be justifiable, however, most murder's are not.

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

"While I am not much for murder, I suppose that sometimes, it is necessary. Politics, in particular, seems to leave a loophole for such activities."

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce leans back in her seat, contemplating the question. "How we feel about it? So, do you want to hear about how Freddy and Jason movies cause me to get all revved up and damp in the panties, or do you want to hear about how murder is a moral institution and completely hypocritical since it's against the law for, say, us, to kill someone but most prison systems still have the death penalty available? Just clarifying which angle to go with."

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Vengeance is one possible reason, wanting restitution for wrongs done to you is a powerful motivator.

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige looks a little uncomfortable about the topic, she was gonna have to vanquish demons soon enough and she knew that Sawyer already wanted to kill someone "I'd murder someone that hurt the people I love, so erm I guess I'd kill for protection and maybe for revenge, but I'm not sure, it's not something I think I can answer unless I was out in that situation."

Re: DISCUSSION: MURDER

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

Two kind of murder. For power or for passion. Both wrong, but passion sometime judge less harshly because of emotion involved.