I think you mean induction (premises of an argument support the conclusion but do not ensure it).

You know for sure when someone else thinks something is likely but not guaranteed. In a murder case it may be smart not to jump into conclusions. Sex, sexuality and human behavior (not to speak of a difficult murder case) are far more complicated matters than ducks being giraffes.

Toby explained very well that he’d been to DTM and he’s not gay. Still your Nice logic says that everybody who’s been to DTM is gay. Does that make Toby a giraffe who walks and talks like a duck?

Good point. Also, maybe fat people just have big bones. And if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it may very well be a giraffe.
Thank you. The world is so much richer now that we are no longer bound by the powers of logical deduction.

Yes the tabloid headline “Renowned professor killed blabla” sure smelled like a b-class crime story. Especially the use of “renowned”. If the guy had been really famous, surely they would have just used his name (they didn’t mention his name in the whole lööppi).

Think “Matti Nykänen murdedered” vs. “Renowned ski jumper murdered”.

The “small town” thing applies to anything/anybody who is “nonconformist”. However there is a bit of a difference between “small town” and “small village” as you do accept a “kylähullu”. Everyone talks about him, but he is ya part of the society. And if you saw that “Ranuan Cowboyt” about the gay farmers in rural Finland, it was quite interesting.

I remember some ten years ago when a friend of mine (also a straight male) told me that this Sillanpää dude is gay and if those aunties who dig him find out they’d be totally shocked.

Now that he’s out, who’s shocked? I think people are today quite ready to accept that someone is gay, at least if it’s an artist.

I think this “everybody knows” and “nobody talks” applies mostly to those who are of an older generation, such as prof. Tikka who was in his early sixties.

But I guess there really is a divide here between cities and small towns. Gay people often move to cities and straight people visit gay bars in cities. In small towns there still is more of this mentality that it’s somehow inappropriate to be gay or talk about it except in the form of gossip behind someone’s back.

I think it’s quite clear that the victim was gay, though. But the operative word in your comment is “openly”. Now my main source are the tabloids that I don’t read, so it’s just the headlines. One of our leading tabloids quoted “friends” of the victim in a screaming headline saying that they had been fearing for his safety because of his double life. I can’t believe the tabloids would’ve dared to make such a headline if anyone would’ve hinted of the possibility of the victim actually having been straight.

This double life would mean that people who knew the victim knew very well that he was gay but not everybody knew he was gay. So he was either a closeted homosexual or although he didn’t hide it, he hadn’t been interviewed on the topic of being gay; his fame was based on his expertise on taxation law, ballet, the arts etc.

The same goes for Cunanan, I wrote “Not that Cunanan wouldn’t have passed as Caucasian.” Well, Cunanan of course was half Caucasian and rather Caucasian-looking. In fact, his ancestry was half Italian and his parents had divorced. His upbringing may indeed have had more to do with Italian-American than with Filipino values.

So the part of ethnicity of a person of mixed ethnicity that is somehow “exotic” is the only one usually highlighted in these murder cases. Indeed, in the case of the suspects of the Tikka case, we don’t know anything but the label “Estonian” and “Russian”. They could be an Estonian and a Russian of Finnish/Karelian/Ingrian/whatever descent for all we know. As far as Russians go, in that country it is very common indeed for people to be of mixed ethnicity.