The indiscriminate murders that happened in the Akihabara district of Tokyo on June 8 demonstrate that mainstream understanding of youths is a total blunder. The 25-year-old suspect seemingly acted in accordance with the understanding that young losers are incompetent and self-tormenting scum -- without a good appearance, only minimal social and labor skills, and of course no girlfriend -- and tend to easily commit crimes of desperation because of resentment against society.
The fact is that such prejudice itself has discouraged the majority of employers from giving decent jobs and wages to the young like him for a long time. The public by now must have prepared plenty of apparently reasonable excuses for future criminals. Now look at the consequences: Media-vulnerable victims and potential antisocial elements have emerged to express sympathy for his story.
Mainstream understanding of young people's feelings, character formation and actual circumstances misses by far. Even it had succeeded in foretelling the June 8 tragedy, it can't be productive in any correct way. So it must be revised.
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