

Yale Professor Considers ‘Mass Suicide’ for Japan’s Elderly
Backtracking on his earlier statements, Japan’s celebrity academic argued that terms like “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku” were intended as “abstract metaphors.”
Backtracking on his earlier statements, Japan’s celebrity academic argued that terms like “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku” were intended as “abstract metaphors.”
The grisly murder comes as the French media, in the past two weeks alone, has reported on several incidents involving illegal migrants carrying out brutal attacks—rapes and murders—against the elderly and other exceptionally vulnerable individuals, such as hospital patients and pre-teens.
The news comes days after a Jordanian migrant with three deportation orders was arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the emergency room at a Parisian hospital.
Today, it is all too common to prize self-sufficiency as a virtue—a virtue by nature inaccessible to the sick and to the disabled, to pregnant women and to the elderly, and to children of any age.