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NEWS: Man Arrested for Threatening Evangelion Studio Khara on Twitter

It makes me wonder is Japan still a safe country especially with this year's KyoAni fire, stabbing attack and now this. Sad

It makes me wonder is Japan still a safe country especially with this year's KyoAni fire, stabbing attack and now this. Sad

If we measure a country's safety based on threatening things people say on Twitter, then no country is safe.

What the hell is going on Japan, that is causing these oddballs to come out of the wood works?

Hell, even without social media stuff like this would still happen. It's just that social media does make things a little easier to go after people.

It's a terrible inevitability that when there's any terrorist act heavily featured in the news, there are people that try to copy it. I wouldn't take these events as any sort of indictment on the safety of Japan as a whole, since as far as I'm aware, by most metrics Japan is still quite a safe country.

It's disgusting that the anime community is so toxic in Japan, that there's so many willing to threaten stuff like this. But I don't see it as much different from the gaming community in the west, which is guilty of harassment, stalking, threats, and even a wrongful death by a false report to police.

I feel like a lot of these incidents show that Japan really needs better mental health services. :/ While I know that mentally ill people are way, waaaaaay more likely to be harmed than to harm others

whiskeyii wrote:

I feel like a lot of these incidents show that Japan really needs better mental health services. :/ While I know that mentally ill people are way, waaaaaay more likely to be harmed than to harm others

...and that's probably where you should have left it, because up to that point, you were right. There's no correlation between mental illness and terrorist attacks; "homicidal maniac" isn't in the DSM. We just keep going to that because it's an easier solution than trying to deal with dangerous political movements and our general love of violence (and in the US, the gun debate).

I believe I heard about a study from an NPR piece where some academic or high-up in the criminal justice community ran the statistics on mass shootings/voluntary mass casualty events in America in the last decade or two, and a majority did not have a mental health cause. Basically, it's just easier for the general public to believe that a mass killer is "crazy" than they intentionally committed an atrocity. Makes for easy, sound-bite solutions that are nowhere near as nuanced as they need to be.

...and that's probably where you should have left it, because up to that point, you were right. There's no correlation between mental illness and terrorist attacks; "homicidal maniac" isn't in the DSM. We just keep going to that because it's an easier solution than trying to deal with dangerous political movements and our general love of violence (and in the US, the gun debate).

I don't think there's much cause for (additional) panic; after something like this happens, there are always a bunch of copycat threats, and the police are going after those much more aggressively now for obvious reasons. Very unlikely that these people would have actually carried out the same sort of attack.

What the hell is going on Japan, that is causing these oddballs to come out of the wood works?

Hell, even without social media stuff like this would still happen. It's just that social media does make things a little easier to go after people. If this was China (as much as I hate what's going in China) people would be grabbed up before they even touched the keyboard.

And while I don't like extreme policing of social media people need to be dealt with when they are threatening personalities.