A Yale University professor said senior should kill themselves for the good of the state and “euthanasia” should be made compulsory.
But don’t worry, he’s not saying it’s a good thing or a bad thing. He’s just offering a morally neutral perspective on Japan’s demographic situation.
To be clear, in a godless world he may be right. Fortunately, that is not the kind of world we live in. In this world, we can all point at him and call him a moral monster.
Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, was referring to the growing population of the elderly in the country. He also said that euthanasia must be made compulsory in Japan
Speaking to New York Times he said, “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear.”
Equating mass suicide with ‘Seppuku’, a ritual disembowelment that was forced upon samurai that had dishonoured the country during the 19th century, Professor Narita said, “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?”
Japan’s population has, for the first time, recorded an increase in the elderly population.
Narita’s comments have invited a lot of criticism from people. Defending his remarks about mass suicide as a “metaphor”, the 37-year-old professor said, “I should have been more careful about their potential negative connotations.”
He added, “After some self-reflection, I stopped using the words last year.”
Yusuke Narita explained the logic behind his remarks to New York Times. He claims that measures like euthanasia would make way for younger people in businesses, politics and other aspects of society that older people refuse to leave.
When asked to defend his views, Narita showed a clip from the 2019 movie called Midsommar, in which a cult coerced an elderly member of the group to jump off a cliff.
“Whether that’s a good thing or not, that’s a more difficult question to answer. So, if you think that’s good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that,” he said.
Talking to the Times, he said, “I was primarily concerned with the phenomenon in Japan, where the same tycoons continue to dominate the worlds of politics, traditional industries, and media/entertainment/journalism for many years.”
While his comments made some angry, they also won him an audience in the form of Twitter followers.
Last year, data revealed that people over 75 in Japan accounted for over 15 per cent of the population while those of 65 accounted for 29.1 per cent.
In terms of world rankings, Japan has the highest proportion of the elderly population followed by Italy and Finland.
Please recall that 100 years ago, the Ivy League largely supported eugenics. When the truth about the Nazi holocaust came to light, all the “elites” scrambled out of the light like cockroaches. But now they’re back.
This is where godless logic leads you. It is inescapable. The moment life is not priceless, you’re just haggling.
