[Philby]

At least 19 people have been killed in a knife attack at a residential care centre for the disabled in the Japanese city of Sagamihara.
The attack happened in the early hours of Tuesday. Another 45 people were reportedly injured, 18 seriously.

Local police have arrested a male suspect after he turned himself in.

The man is said to be aged 26, and is a former employee at the the Tsukui Yamayuri Garden facility, 40km (25 miles) south-west of Tokyo.
He reportedly went into a police station and said "I did it". No motive has been established yet.

Details are still emerging about the incident, but the death toll makes it the worst mass stabbing in Japan in recent years.
In 2008, a man drove a truck into a packed shopping district at Akihabara in Tokyo, before climbing out and randomly stabbing people. Seven people died.

The attack occurred on the same date that a man with a history of mental illness stabbed eight children to death at an Osaka primary school in 2001.

[Godstud]

It's not a trend. This sort of thing has always been happening.

[danholo]

Knife attacks, huh. I hear that these are supposedly very common in China but because of censorship it's not widely reported. The main victims are kids at daycares.

What's the appeal?

[Atlantis]

Yes, its a trend, just like fascism was a trend during the 1930th.

You want to look at what's happening in the Philippines. That's real scary. Makes Trump look like a choir boy.

[layman]

It has nothing to do with fascism which was a collective movement.

This is very much about unhinged individuals internalizing things. Sometimes political things.

[anarchist23]

I can remember chatting to a fisherman in Portugal which had just become a democracy. He said that when the country was controlled by a dictator the repression was throughout the society in Portugal. There was violence and repression in the family right up to the police.
We all now live in a carceral society, our lives are micro managed and repressed. We have unhinged individuals who are the the first to lash out and do violent acts in a sick society. Isn't the rise in the number of murders in a country an indicator of how healthy a society is?

[Donna]

Knife attacks, huh. I hear that these are supposedly very common in China but because of censorship it's not widely reported. The main victims are kids at daycares.

What's the appeal?

They think they're getting even with society, whatever that is. In reality they're destroying themselves and hurting others in a rather pointless tantrum.

[layman]

Isn't the rise in the number of murders in a country an indicator of how healthy a society is?

Murder was very common in primitive society in the most part.

Left wingers like yourself tend to worship those.

[anarchist23]

Murder was very common in primitive society in the most part.

Left wingers like yourself tend to worship those.

I don't understand what you're saying.

[AFAIK]

Rates of interpersonal violence have fallen over the millennia and the centuries, A23. Hunter gatherers would raid one anothers' camps on a regular basis causing rates of violent death to be much higher than in modern nation-states.

[anarchist23]

Rates of interpersonal violence have fallen over the millennia and the centuries, A23. Hunter gatherers would raid one anothers' camps on a regular basis causing rates of violent death to be much higher than in modern nation-states.

More humans have died in war in the twentieth century than ever.

Murder was very common in primitive society in the most part.

Left wingers like yourself tend to worship those.

I really don't understand the line that is in bold.

[layman]

I really don't understand the line that is in bold.

You seem to hate Americans and use murders as a stick to beat them with.

You therefore say that increased murder is sign of sick society.

Murder was far more common in ancient society's - and primitive society's - that left wingers tend to worship in the "noble savage" sense. Murder is also very common in Africa and south America. These are also places left wingers tend to defend.

What leads to lots of murders in poor or advanced societys isnt clear. I dont even know what a "sick society" is tbh.

[Decky]

The opposite is actually true of course. The left worships development and industrialation. You think the 5 years plans were about making the Soviet Union more primitive? You think socialists put the first man into space for that reason? Like all right wing people you see the world backwards. You are incapable of seeing thing as they really are.

[anarchist23]

You therefore say that increased murder is sign of sick society.

Yes. I believe this is so. Increase in murder (suicides as well) indicates that citizens of a society are becoming more stressed and discontented.

Murder was far more common in ancient society's - and primitive society's - that left wingers tend to worship in the "noble savage" sense. Murder is also very common in Africa and south America. These are also places left wingers tend to defend.

I have never worshipped/defended noble savages, Africa or South America.

[AFAIK]

More humans have died in war in the twentieth century than ever.

Nope it was 1%

[SolarCross]

It's not a trend. This sort of thing has always been happening.

yes this ^.

Human beings are wild animals with a sugar coating of civility. Most of the time we only see that sugar coating of civility so we fool ourselves into thinking that is how we really are, but it is not so, never was and never will be.

The phrase in English "running amok" comes from a Malay word "amok" which means a random homicidal frenzy. Apparently people slipping from the restraints of civility and engaging in an animalistic frenzy of killing happened often enough in Malay society to merit its own word.

wiki has a nice article on this - Running amok

[anarchist23]

Nope it was 1%

https://www.theguardian.com
22 Feb 2002 -

In regards the numbers killed in wars then the last century was the deadliest ever.

[ThirdTerm]

The knife attacker was named as Satoshi Uematsu, a Japanese national. Uematsu was fired by the centre for the disabled where he had worked for four years, after he tested positive for marijuana in February, which was the prime motive for the attack. He also sent a menacing letter to the prime minister in the same month when he was sacked, in which he hinted at euthanizing disabled people in the near future. Because of the letter, he was hospitalised for ten days but unfortunately for Japanese society, he had to be released. Authorities should have the power to detain anyone who poses an immediate threat to society indefinitely, especially those who are likely to engage in terrorism.

Several people were detained in a Moscow apartment on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Moscow, Russian news agencies reported, citing the FSB press service. Two of the detained confessed the attack was to be on public transport, the FSB said.

During the questioning, two suspects told security officers that they planned an attack on Moscow public transport, and had received financial resources and elements of an improvised explosive device from their superiors in the militant group, the FSB press service said.

The FSB did not specify how many people had been detained. They added, however, that all the suspects are Russian citizens.

The suspects face up to 20 years behind bars under three criminal articles, including terrorism, illegally making explosives and illegal acquisition of firearms.

https://www.rt.com/news/318380-moscow-t ... -detained/

[Zagadka]

Nope it was 1%

Um, that chart breaks the rules of charts... you're comparing 100 years to 10000 years directly at the same scale.

[Potemkin]

Um, that chart breaks the rules of charts... you're comparing 100 years to 10000 years directly at the same scale.

So? Presumably, it's a logarithmic scale. The metric is a bit vague, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it. Logarithmic graphs are a thing.