O.K., now I’m really confused. Here is my summary that you said was spot on: German adults who were trying to hurt other people did a thing that was later outlawed because it resulted in human deaths. Most reasonable people would consider the thing they did to be stupid. The deaths occurred in multiple different ways. They had something to do with suicide, but the people doing the stupid things were not trying or intending to commit suicide. The outlawed activity was kind of in the area of a challenge, dare or bet.
These German adults were trying to hurt other people. Do you not consider these other people to be victims?
Were the German adults just trying to hurt some other people generally, rather than specific individuals? (For instance, they were working on building a bomb, or making ricin or something equally dangerous, but hadn’t picked specific targets.)
Were the people who died indirectly as a result of the German adults’ activity selected by the German adults?
Were the people who died indirectly as a result of the German adults’ activity self-selected - i.e. they chose to do something because of the German adults’ activity that lead to their deaths?
Correct. At least not how I think of the word victim.
I think I answered correctly and accurately.
I am loving this one, by the way. It’s just the right amount of mystery. You are getting more and more info, but the solution is just out of reach enough to make it pull you along. I’m very pleased this time.
There’s the thing that the German adults who were trying to hurt individual people were doing, and there’s the thing that the people who died were doing. Are these two separate things?
Was the thing that the German adults who were trying to hurt people were doing outlawed?
Was the thing that the people who died were doing outlawed?
They are not two separate things. This whole thing makes one “thing” or “activity” that the German government outlawed. As is now pretty clear, the whole situation is pretty strange.
Figure out what people were doing, including the strangeness of the situation, that the German government had to outlaw.
Is the object involved in the activity used to determine the chance? That is, do you need to do something with the object (spin it, throw it, read it in some way) in order to find out whether the answer is one thing or another (or a certain number is picked, etc.)
