Comments on: Akihabara Massacre

By: DrmChsr0

DrmChsr0 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:19:55 +0000

You can lead a horse to water but you can't force him to drink it unless you've conditioned him to do so.

Japan has had a lot of Pavlovian conditioning; it's not going to be easy to break them out of it. It runs deep into their culture.

By: meganeshounen

meganeshounen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:52:19 +0000

Unfortunately, not everyone is as willing and open as the inhabitants of Hatsunejima (or Minatsu's friends, in that certain story). One can only wish…

By: Ronin

Ronin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:32:41 +0000

It's a perfect recipe. Akihabara, massacre, otaku culture. Same thing with the US version. Columbine, massacre, video games.

Oh indeed. A recipe for media disaster. (-_-")

I hope society can learn from this too, accepting differences of other people instead of persecuting them. Maybe the Akihabara tragedy may have been avoided if the world, and all the people in it, were in a more open-minded state of being.

Truth. It's a jaded fact we have to believe in.