# 19 dead, 20 injured in Sagamihara, Japan

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/19-dead-20-injured-in-sagamihara-japan/760894 "2016-07-25T21:46:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/19-dead-20-injured-in-sagamihara-japan/760894/21 "2016-07-26T15:08:08Z")

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Perhaps this would be an appropriate place to remember the Holocausts first forgotten victims

> **[Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program)**
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> The Nazi Euthanasia Program, codenamed Aktion "T4," was the systematic murder of institutionalized people with disabilities. Read about Nazi “euthanasia.”

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/19-dead-20-injured-in-sagamihara-japan/760894/22 "2016-07-26T16:54:45Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> You do have to remember that Japanese culture is not as accepting of differently-abled as ours is.

With an autistic sister-in-law in Japan, I’m well aware of how Japanese culture values conformity and doesn’t treat disabled individuals as well as we think they ought to - but I can’t recall anyone offering to euthanize her, or attempting to surreptitiously stab her to death in her sleep.

Given that he used to work there, it’s possible that his observations led him to believe that his victims were not living happy lives, and he was performing an act of mercy. He seems to think [he’s done a good thing.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-voluntary_euthanasia)

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/19-dead-20-injured-in-sagamihara-japan/760894/23 "2016-07-26T17:08:54Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> 19 people dead in a KNIFE attack?!

Goddamn over-achiever. Totally wrecks the curve!

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/19-dead-20-injured-in-sagamihara-japan/760894/24 "2016-07-26T17:11:17Z")

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> [@madsircool](#):
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> Perhaps this would be an appropriate place to remember the Holocausts first forgotten victims
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> [Holocaust Encyclopedia | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum](https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/mobile/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200)

Why? What does this have to do with the events we’re talking about? 😕

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**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/19-dead-20-injured-in-sagamihara-japan/760894/25 "2016-07-26T18:10:47Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Why? What does this have to do with the events we’re talking about? 😕

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.–George Santayana

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