Japan should reinstate Seppuku for any social media attention seekers

Heard about this the other day on Hero Hei’s channel. I’m glad that they finally caught this nutjob. I’m willing to bet that he won’t be able to play the “race card” in Japan; they don’t take crap like that from people. That’s why they hate it when their anime/manga gets “edited” or “lost in translation”.

Rules for thee, not for me… mentality.

This narcissist needs to be brought back into reality.

The need for attention and clicks and validation has a limit, especially when you break the law to get it.

Hope he enjoys his jail time and I hope during that time he is also banned from posting anything too.

There have always been narcissists and attention seekers. There have always been people doing freakish or unacceptable things.  But the guiderails of society, stigma, has been removed and to the point where society now celebrates anti-society.  Which is not a condition that can last for long.  This is not new, probably started hard in the 90’s with Gen-X.

Stigma is not a bad thing.  It’s actually a good thing.  Most people figure out how to move through society.  But many have trouble with that the lines we don’t color beyond that they don’t see so well.  Stigma is the societal guiderails such folks need.  Now we have no guiderails, so people are insane.

Stigma is a societal consensus.   Right now that does not exist as we are so polarized.   And society has long glorified anti-society which will end with there being no society if not corrected.

Morality is the standard for human behavior.  At what point we decide it is subjective then it is not a standard and it no longer exists and anarchy follows.  Hence present day.

The philosophical error many make today is to think we are so smart and advanced now and we are so “progressive” that we are superior to what came before us.  This is absolute degenerate nonsense.  We ALL stand on the shoulders of giants.  None of us would have the level of freedom or comfort today if those before us did not sacrifice themselves for us, which at the time was their future.  Modern day folks tend to contribute nothing and sacrifice nothing. If this does not change our children and grandchildren are doomed to misery, enslavement and death.  If that ends up the case, then we are to blame.

If you assume our current superiority is valid and challenge the notion what is now is right and correct and evolved beyond long ago, I offer you this. Right now if your local grocery store was not available for a week or your water tap at your home failed for several days, I am telling you right now many people would die. But people from 10,000 years ago would get by just fine.

Society is awesome.  And it affords us comfort.  But unless everyone is working towards that end it ceases to exist. PERIOD.

The forward march of society and humanity is not powered by platitudes, good intent or positive emotion. This only happens through action and sacrifice.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Vknid.

If the Japanese DO finally fling him into jail, I don’t think he’ll be laughing after that. Japan is more stricter with their jail sentences than say the US or UK where he’d just have a “slap on the wrist” and be allowed to carry on about his “daily life”. Wish we had that over here.

@Salvince

That actually is not stigma.  That is fear.

The prior version of stigma was organic and existed naturally and usually for good reason.  What you are referring to now is nothing but social programming based on a consequence of being attacked, fired, banned and or drummed out of society entirely.

In previous decades, if you had stigma making you feel bad about yourself because of your actions and even had others frown upon you that was the common consequence of that.  It actually pushed you to be a better version of yourself and avoid things typically that had negative ramifications in your life.

Now, we avoid things publicly and often even privately, because we don’t want to have extreme people attack  us.  This does not push anyone to be better.  It just causes them to self censor and harbor a deep resentment for what you are being told to shut up about.

They are both mechanisms for avoiding certain behavior yes.  But, they are different.  Stimga as it has existed previously was based on avoiding unsavory behavior not because something would happen to you but typically because you would feel crappy about yourself based on the opinions of others.

The situation now is not stigma but fear based on existential consequences that could occur if you cross the mainstream ideology.

The difference is akin to me saying you can do X if you want but I don’t like X and I will think ill of you if you participate in X.  But now the situation is, I only agree with Y, and if I get any evidence you agree with X I will attack you, harm you and report you to others that will also harm you so you better keep quiet or we will hurt you.

One is a suggestion and the other is a threat of physical consequence.

Maybe they are degrees of each other.  Possible I guess, but with different intent.  But even if they are degrees of each other fear is 100x more extreme vs. stigma. One just says, I will have a bad opinion of you.  The other says, I will kick the shit out of you and make sure you are fired.

In my book, they are not at all the same especially given one is organic the other is engineered for a specific purpose.