Random violence in Japan
03/26/2008 @ 12:00 pm
Something to think about the next time you are waiting for a train. . . An 18-year-old boy has been arrested for killing a man he pushed from a train platform into the path of an oncoming train. Apparently it was an act of random violence.
The teen was quoted by police as saying:
“I thought that if I killed someone I could go to prison. I didn’t care who it was.”
There are recently these kind of sick persons. It would be even better they killed just themselves somewhere alone.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:13 pmSo he wanted to go to prison? Geez, he didn’t have to kill someone to do that!
March 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pmWhile Japan is still an amazingly safe environment, I’ve actually found myself checking behind me when lined up near the front of crowded train platforms in the past couple of years, just because of the increasing number of irrational attacks like this.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:15 pmI have a twelve-year old and a nine-year old (who doesn’t speak any Eigo)..they don’t like western-type people.
remora
March 26th, 2008 at 10:00 pmI saw a lady on the train platform when I was going to Narita airport for a flight back to Cambodia, and she was in such poor shape she could have fit in easy in the poorest comunities in Phnom Penh. I have to say that I was kinda of shocked to see that in central Tokyo so this is not really that shocking as sad as it is.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:29 ambut then there’s always the danger of sliding into the Panicology Zone..
“Humanity has never had it so good. Most people around the world are better off and will live longer than their ancestors. If we could hold on to that perspective, we would all be much more relaxed. But we aren’t relaxed. We are anxious and stressed. We are scared that bad things will happen to us: nuclear war, cancer, child abduction. As for keeping things in perspective, Homo sapiens just isn’t cut out for it,..”
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2263607,00.html
By the way, why is Prozac banned in Japan ?
rem.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:25 am