"老害殺害計画," literally translated as "The Master Plan to Kill the Old Guards," was the title of the book promised by a Tokyo-based right-wing publisher a year ago in May 25, 2022 to now worldly famous (or infamous) professor #YusukeNarita, @YaleEconomics Assistant Professor.
Although Narita wrote in his email response to @nytimes that his comments "primarily concerned" the "tycoons" who remain in control of various industries, he did not make the distinction when aging in rural villages was being discussed. He proposed the same solution.
So it is safe to assume that his "only solution" applies not only to the "old guards" but also to the common elderly who "may become harm to society," which is what the wording "老害" stands for; a harm brought on to the society by gerontocracy. So how will distinction be made?
That's exactly what Narita has failed to elaborate since he has professed "mass suicide", "mass seppuku" or voluntary/involuntary euthanasia as solution to the aging problem. If that's the case, how will other people make the distinction, especially the elderly themselves?
By what 'measure' can a society, a community, a family, or an individual, judge an elderly if he/she is or a would-be a 'harm to society'? Who makes the call? Who judges that call? What are the safeguards, if any. These are some of the things Narita has failed to address.
And if they are judged as 'harm to society' can a society simply choose to 'eliminate' an individual based on such judgement? If there is a law they could, but weren't such laws condemned when it was enforced by the Nazi regime? Is it being 'legal' an excuse to be inhumane?
The more we try to discuss the plausibility of his "only solution" the more wary we would become of the need to uphold fundamental human rights before any need of the community, society, or a state. Without these bedrocks, we can easily slide down 'that' slippery slope.
An economics professor advocating for the employment of these inhumane acts as public policy must be heavily scrutinized, as this Indian TV program has rightly pointed to. It cannot be taken lightly or accepted as 'easy way out' of the dark tunnel.

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Feb 14
🇮🇳インド@firstpost#成田悠輔 氏の件を報道。5分近くに渡って、「集団自決」「集団切腹」「強制安楽死」発言を取り上げるとともに「高齢化は日本だけの問題ではない。2030年には34カ国で人口の20%が65歳以上になる」とグローバルな視点で論じる。

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興味深いのは、成田氏の主張に対し「猛反発」が起こるとともに「聴衆を獲得」しており(“won him an audience”)、彼の発想が政策決定に不当な影響を及ぼす(“it could unduly sway public policy”)ことの懸念が表明されているところ。これはNYタイムズとは視点が異なる。
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・Y大教授が集団自決を提案
・成田氏
 「文脈から切り取られた」
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 「高齢者はフェーズアウトすべき」
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・日本も世界も急速に高齢化
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#成田悠輔 氏の「集団自決」「集団切腹」発言や、「安楽死」奨励発言に関する13日付の米紙NYタイムズの記事。有料なので全文を読む余裕はなかったが、一瞬表示された記事から、タイムズ紙が成田氏側にもイェール大側にも取材していたことを確認。特に成田氏からメール回答もあったようなので抄訳した。
成田氏の回答を抄訳してみて、従来通りの主張と感じた。所謂「老害」たちがあらゆる界隈に君臨し、価値観を硬直させ、変革の妨げになっている──それは私も感じるところだ。成田氏は、本人らに向かって「集団自決」「集団切腹」で勇退したらどうだと言い、得意になっていた。それが危うというのだ。
既に1000万人が見たこのツイートでNYタイムズは、成田氏が馬組の中で語った「唯一の解決策(”the only solution”)」と言う表現に注目した。これは、番組内でひろゆき氏が「高齢者のわがまま問題」をどうするかと投げかけたことに対して成田氏が実際に語った一言だった。
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2023/2/13 付🇺🇸米紙NYタイムズ「日本の高齢者による集団自決を提案したイェール大教授。彼は何を言いたかったのか」
A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? @nytimes nytimes.com/2023/02/12/wor…
#成田悠輔 #集団自決
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I ask you. @Yale, is this acceptable?
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economics.yale.edu/people/yusuke-…
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Jan 11
LET THEM COMMIT MASS SUICIDE or
COMMIT MASS SEPPUKU (aka HARAKIRI)

@Yale Economics Assistant Professor #YusukeNarita proposed this as a solution for the aging population in Japan “before the elderies become a harm to society,” saying it would be “the ultimate Cool Japan policy.”
This is how he actually spoke on this ‘solution’ on a live TV news show #ABEMANews while asserting earlier that it is superfluous to present a ‘solution’ to a problem by blaming something without any logic or reason. Later, he said the ‘solution’ is to ELIMINATE the problem.
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