i'm reading up on that mass stabbing in Tokyo

yeah.

 

Yeah but he was probably worried people would just laugh at him.
I mean , he wouldnt want em thinking he was weird : )

Seriously tho , in their view , its only something extreme and wacko that makes people sit up and take note.
No body gets bothered about a note - unless its one saying someone's kidnapped your kids and that theyre gonna be sending u limbs until u pay the ransom demand

 

i don't care about his reasoning NOW. i just think he's an asshole.

 

1 person should never be able to stab more than 3 people at a time, and that's only if one of them is tying they shoe. I could never be the 6th person stabbed in a crowd. It's im-fucking-possible

 

unlikely, yes, but apparently this guy ate some PCP with his wheaties and red bull.

 

Do you think he was on psychiatric meds?

 

probably not nearly enough.

 

That could be true, but I'm curious since they keep linking these murder sprees with meds.

I pretty much think that some people shouldn't be made to feel better until they fix their thought patterns. Mania and homicidal impulses makes a bad combo.

 

some thought processes can't be fixed. in which case, i recommend suicide PRIOR to homicidal rages.

 

well, people on meds are typically already at a higher risk for aberrant and dangerous behavior. so i don't really think the link is all that interesting, except to say that these people had a history of mental illness which required some sort of medical intervention. it's not like murder sprees are a new thing.

 

The way I see it is like this:

1 person gets stabbed, doesn't expect it, didn't see it coming: undeserved
2nd person didn't see the first person get stabbed, but heard the scream: undeserved
3rd person heard the first two people scream, turned around and in shock: somewhat undeserved

4-17: Know good and gotdammed well that it's a crazy mufucka running around randomly stabbin people and couldn't
a) get away from the mufucka with the knife or
b) take the knife from the crazy mufucka with the knife: Should of been smart enough to get away.

 

in a heavy crowd where people in the back who dont' see what's going on are getting in the way of the people in the front of the crowd getting away, things happen.

 

Truth

And yeah, that's why I advocate citizens being strapped legally. He would have stabbed maybe 1-2 people before getting a bullet in the head.

 

I suppose from his point of view , it was adding to what he was saying.

If everyone had looked after others , he wouldve been disarmed , and maybe one or 2 died .As things were , they didnt help ( maybe?) , thinking "ahh someone else 'll get killed not me" and lots of people got killed?

 

Yeah, it's like the bystander effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect