Re: [News] Cartoon blamed for youth's fatal beating on mom

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
says...
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>On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:31:22 -0500, "S.t.A.n.L.e.E"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>And guess which one it is:
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>><http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200312/02/20031202p2a00m0dm001001c
.html>
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>>   YAMAGATA -- A man accused of beating his mother to
>>   death with a baseball bat was influenced by a cartoon
>>   that made him believe humans were unnecessary beings,
>>   prosecutors told the Yamagata District Court on Monday.
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>>   In opening statements at the trial of Hiroyuki Tsuchida,
>>   22, prosecutors claimed that watching the science-fiction
>>   cartoon "Neon Genesis Evangelion" had made Tsuchida
>>   believe a phrase in it that said, "The ultimate conclusion
>>   of (human) evolution is ruin."
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>>   He also came to believe that humans were unnecessary
>>   beings who were destroying the world's environment, and
>>   in turn began to want to kill people, prosecutors said.
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>>   They said the man fatally smashed his mother in the head
>>   with a baseball bat at about 2 p.m. on June 25, thinking
>>   that if he killed family members he would not hesitate
>>   when murdering others.
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>The "Twinkie Defense" still lives!

Actually, Dan White's (no relation) defense was
a bit more complicated than that.  It was, in
fact, good enough to persuade 12 people who 
had little reason to want to let him live, not
to have him fragged...

FW