Friday, November 14, 2008

``They don't feel guilty because they were the generation who recorded the highest youth crime rates when they were young.''

Interesting moral argument of the day. Via Bloomberg:

"The number of households on welfare reached 1.1 million last year, an increase of 300,000 since 2001, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Japan ranks behind the U.S. at fourth-worst among 30 developed countries in terms of the number of people living on less than half the country's median income, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development last month.

``Some elderly, particularly men who lost their wives, even turn to crimes to be put in jail so they can be fed three times a day,'' Yamada said.

Still, Japan's weakening economy is not the only cause of elderly crime, Yamada said. The current generation of seniors grew up in the confusion of the aftermath of World War II, when crime rates in Japan were at their highest, he said.

``They don't feel guilty because they were the generation who recorded the highest youth crime rates when they were young.''

Since we did it when we were young, it's okay to do it now as well. Sure, I get it. Hell, we didn't get caught.

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