Attacking Children
How dreadfully sad, and how horribly awful. That the lives of children could be at risk from the backlash of angry citizens, somehow finding fault with the government under which they live, and deciding to violently target young children to signal the extent of the atrocious level of their anger. Above all, in a society that is rigidly bureaucratic, and one with such a huge population base that it decided long ago that it would impose a limit upon families of the number of children they could bring into the world.
One incident after another, since the original one that was reported back in March, when a member of the medical profession, of all things, entered a school and expertly murdered eight school children before he was stopped. That man has been executed. China has a short view of retaining members of its society given to psychotic episodes of murderous rage, in costly prison situations. They are summarily dispatched, and that is that.
Except that wasn't quite 'that'. It would appear that though this horrible atrocity shocked and traumatized most Chinese people, understanding as they do that the loss of any one child is a true social tragedy, for the rigidly-prescribed one-child-per-family imposition ensures that any such affected family will not pass on their DNA through an eternity of survival.
On an emotional level, anyone hearing that a child has been heartlessly slaughtered by a deranged psychopath, instinctively thinks of the vulnerability of their own child, and feels their own hearts grown heavy with anguish for the grieving family. But then, there are always exceptions, and it has become obvious to Chinese authorities that there is a lot of simmering resentment in the public.
Almost impossible to believe that any mature citizen would choose to emulate the insane act of attacking children to appease their sense of aggrievement, to deliver a message to the authorities that they are mightily displeased, but that would appear to be just what has been occurring. Last week a 46-year-old man entered a school, managing to attack and stab 29 children, two teachers and a security guard at a kindergarten.
Before that, a former teacher stabbed 16 students and a teacher at a primary school. And then there was another, said to represent the fifth in recent weeks. A Chinese farmer attacked kindergarten children with a hammer, injuring five children. And then set himself on fire and died of his burns. He was angry with officials for informing him that a house he had built for his son was illegal because it was built on farmland.
Farmland must be kept free to produce food for the vast population; it is illegal to turn farmland over to building of houses. He claimed he'd had official permission to build where he did. His frustration led him to his viciously act against very young children. This, a man who sacrificed his life savings to build a house for his son. His own son was precious beyond gain to him. Yet he could bring himself to such a brutal act against the children of others.
One can only wonder at the human mind, so fragile, so self-involved, so intolerably and miserably fallible.
One incident after another, since the original one that was reported back in March, when a member of the medical profession, of all things, entered a school and expertly murdered eight school children before he was stopped. That man has been executed. China has a short view of retaining members of its society given to psychotic episodes of murderous rage, in costly prison situations. They are summarily dispatched, and that is that.
Except that wasn't quite 'that'. It would appear that though this horrible atrocity shocked and traumatized most Chinese people, understanding as they do that the loss of any one child is a true social tragedy, for the rigidly-prescribed one-child-per-family imposition ensures that any such affected family will not pass on their DNA through an eternity of survival.
On an emotional level, anyone hearing that a child has been heartlessly slaughtered by a deranged psychopath, instinctively thinks of the vulnerability of their own child, and feels their own hearts grown heavy with anguish for the grieving family. But then, there are always exceptions, and it has become obvious to Chinese authorities that there is a lot of simmering resentment in the public.
Almost impossible to believe that any mature citizen would choose to emulate the insane act of attacking children to appease their sense of aggrievement, to deliver a message to the authorities that they are mightily displeased, but that would appear to be just what has been occurring. Last week a 46-year-old man entered a school, managing to attack and stab 29 children, two teachers and a security guard at a kindergarten.
Before that, a former teacher stabbed 16 students and a teacher at a primary school. And then there was another, said to represent the fifth in recent weeks. A Chinese farmer attacked kindergarten children with a hammer, injuring five children. And then set himself on fire and died of his burns. He was angry with officials for informing him that a house he had built for his son was illegal because it was built on farmland.
Farmland must be kept free to produce food for the vast population; it is illegal to turn farmland over to building of houses. He claimed he'd had official permission to build where he did. His frustration led him to his viciously act against very young children. This, a man who sacrificed his life savings to build a house for his son. His own son was precious beyond gain to him. Yet he could bring himself to such a brutal act against the children of others.
One can only wonder at the human mind, so fragile, so self-involved, so intolerably and miserably fallible.
Labels: China, Health, Human Relations, Social-Cultural Deviations
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