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First, before I talk about seriousness, have some Space Bees and Cat Face, because it's funny. :3
Now, on to the not-funny part.
So, on the news today they caught the "Akihabara Killer" (which is the title of this post) - they showed the police catching what looked to be a man curled up the fetal position on one of the side streets of Akiba. Having visited Akiba many times before and walked the same street (Chuo-dori) where this killing occurred, I can say it's produced quite a chilling effect on me.
The Akiba Killing was as such - a 24-year old Japanese man drove from Shizuoka Prefecture to Akihabara in Tokyo (about 3 hours away) in a rental truck, ran some people over, and then stabbed them to death - he then walked around the perimeter where the truck was stopped in Chuo-dori and stabbed people at random, and 7 people died.
As I've said before (maybe not in this journal), America has the higher crime rate, but it seems like most of the crimes are well, what one would call "normal" (if one could call acts of brutality 'normal'). Japan, though, has very few killings but all of them are of such a disturbing type you have to sort of pause to think about what moral fibre these people were made of. I'm not saying that America is better for it (because Jesus, we need to lock down on crime somehow, if not ban guns to hunting weapons), but the way some of the Japanese people treat these disturbing crimes is equally horrifying.
"Oh, they just needed a girlfriend," or maybe, "they studied too hard." Yes, these are elements I'm sure, but I have a feeling no one stops and says, "now, what could be wrong with the system here that would make a man go out into a heavily populated area - announcing his intentions previously in a message board -- and kill seven people? What makes a wife/child kill their husband/parents, and cut them up into tiny pieces and throw them in garbage cans? Part of that answer is logical, since Japan has such tiny spaces, it's easier to hide a body if it's cut up into tiny pieces, but you have to think about what kind of person can cut up another person into tiny pieces with... well what? Obviously, the normal Japanese person isn't going to own something that can cut easily through bone - but really, how mental does someone have to be to cut people up?
I can answer that in part, too - that when a person ceases to live, they cease to become a person, and therefore are an object - any less than a butcher cuts up cows, I'm sure that's one way how the other person can justify breaking a person into tiny pieces.
But still, there aren't any simple answers for how they originated in the first place, and how they formulate in someone's mind as something that sick and twisted. I'm not talking about just crimes in Japan, mind you - it's any sick and twisted crime - the Akiba Killing was just something that spurred this train of thought.
We could go on the path more traveled and say that it's the media's fault. Also, in part, true, but not the entire formulae. I would say if I were to take an instance of a twisted crime, I would have to look at the person's parents, family, friends, things they wrote/drew, the general system of the school/institution/country they were in, the history behind that institution, the media and the history behind that as well for a start.
To be honest, everyone's fascinated by sick crimes, and the aftermath, it seems. I wish it wasn't so, but I too am completely fascinated by mass murders, suicides, strange disappearances and those freaky forensic dramas where, while they're working on the body in the morgue, the killer is right behind them... I wonder sometimes if the killers are just fulfilling a worldwide sick fantasy to see something other than their normal routine of school, work, sleep, etc.
See, I told you you'd need Cat Face. *laughs*
That's as far as I'll venture into that topic, because those are just my surface thoughts, and I'd rather like to continue having a good day rather than muddle myself in dark thoughts of violence and society.
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