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A Yale economics professor has some ideas for how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. The “only solution,” he said, is mass suicide of the elderly, including ritual disembowelment.

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A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?

Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.

3:40 PM · Feb 12, 2023

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"The phrases 'mass suicide' and 'mass seppuku,' he wrote, were 'an abstract metaphor.'"

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People say stuff like this in the West too. They just brand it as “boomers have antiquated values.”

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lol I think that's a little different

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Good to see America isn’t the only nation with terrible people promoting terrible ideas for profit.

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But THEY ARE. It's literally the only option they are leaving me & millions others with.

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The only appropriate response to this is “you first”

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They're winning tho...

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Why are you platforming genocide?

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I was told to go ahead and use the euthanasia option by some awesome liberals.

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holy fuck

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Liberal universities. Indoctrinating the youth with love affairs for Socialism, communism, and mass suicide. What a time to be alive.

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You first.

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What in the entire fuck, NYT.

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This paper needs to die. All the wrong outlets are closing down

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What are those glasses bro

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“He’s such a quirky GEEEEENIOUS!!”

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Thanks for letting me know

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new MAiD provision just dropped

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“What did he mean” is classic NYT objectivity. WTF do you think he meant?

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I wonder what his position is on how to address climate change.

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What I find strange is that he likened it to 'Sepukku', honour-linked ritual disembowelment, rather than Ubasute, the legendary practice of carrying infirm/elderly ppl to a mountain, and leaving them there to die (eg, the Ballad of Narayama).

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Ubasute - Wikipedia