Don't commit "cultural" suicide
Published by Avi Green on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 5:35 AM.
Japan, which has had a disturbing number of suicides for many years, is now taking steps to put a stop to it.
It's a very strange and frightening mentality that may have originated with the samurai during the Japanese civil war era, when some ronins would commit suicide because of their master's own death. I just don't understand what good it ever did. How does that help to bring their masters back, or to accomplish anything in life? And how does such a mentality help things even today? It does not.
That's why I hope that this whole suicide mentality can be stopped, in order to help better the future of the world, and Japan's own society.
It's a very strange and frightening mentality that may have originated with the samurai during the Japanese civil war era, when some ronins would commit suicide because of their master's own death. I just don't understand what good it ever did. How does that help to bring their masters back, or to accomplish anything in life? And how does such a mentality help things even today? It does not.
That's why I hope that this whole suicide mentality can be stopped, in order to help better the future of the world, and Japan's own society.
