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

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Galen Musbach wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:31:22 -0500, "S.t.A.n.L.e.E"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >And guess which one it is:
> >
> ><http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200312/02/20031202p2a00m0dm001001c.html>
> >
> >   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.
> >
> >   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."
> >
> >   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.
> >
> >   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.
>
> The "Twinkie Defense" still lives!
> Copping a plea for manslaughter on the basis
> of diminished capacity ... the sugar rush made
> me do it!
>

Though just to make things clearer for everyone,
if you re-read the news article again,
it's the _prosecutors_ who are making the Eva claims,
not the defense.  Make of that what you wish.
(An agenda against Evangelion?  Anno?  Gainax?  Anime?)

Laters. =)

                Stan
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