tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post3473374699274096793..comments2024-03-27T09:08:50.883-07:00Comments on Bad Mom, Good Mom: More statistic manipulationbadmomgoodmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569728075698885020noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-5009283569927848652007-11-21T15:37:00.000-08:002007-11-21T15:37:00.000-08:00The campus blinders, unfortunately, don't surprise...The campus blinders, unfortunately, don't surprise me. My alma mater is very good at covering such things up so as to not scare away students and potential donors. Victims were made to feel that they were in the wrong and every incident was handled "in house" as much as possible without municipal/state/federal involvement.Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00123147059065290434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-31924255111434021132007-11-19T03:17:00.000-08:002007-11-19T03:17:00.000-08:00So, to get away with murder in Japan, one need onl...So, to get away with murder in Japan, one need only make it look like the victim committed suicide? What about the cases when someone has multiple stab wounds, bleeds to death, and the death certificate says heart failure?<BR/><BR/>I am not so convinced that suicide does not carry a stigma in modern day Japan. That might have been true in an earlier time, but much less after WWII. E.g. in Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes, Fumiko, seeks Kikuji's help in finding a doctor to cover up her mother's death by suicide. Why would that be necessary unless there was a social stigma against suicide?<BR/><BR/>Your second observation would lead to artificially low suicide rates and high accident rates in the west. It shouldn't have much impact on the murder rate.badmomgoodmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11569728075698885020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-61123185153647319542007-11-17T22:26:00.000-08:002007-11-17T22:26:00.000-08:00The article says that apparent suicides in Japan a...The article says that apparent suicides in Japan are accepted uncritically. I wonder if that is connected with suicide being more "socially acceptable" in Japanese culture. Maybe committing suicide carries less social stigma than being murdered.<BR/><BR/>In Western culture, at least historically, suicide was shameful and there was a bias towards finding that actual suicides were "accidental deaths" (cf. James Cain's <I>Double Indemnity</I>).Richard Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833387144768089695noreply@blogger.com