A philosophical murder

I needed money, so I hired an assassin to kill my grandmother by poisoning her tea.

Before he handed over an unsoiled cup of Darjeeling, he asked her some questions:

"What is tea?"

"Why are you craving it?"

"What are the alternatives?"

When he reported back to me, I yelled at him:

"You idiot! Not *THAT* Socratic method! The other one!"

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Socrates was famously executed by poisonous Hemlock tea.

Asking questions to make the subject understand something is called 'the Socratic method'

The assassin used the second method instead of the first.

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I find that jokes are much better when you explain them.

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Was the method to poison Socrates named "The Socratic method" ? I don't think so