For human civilization, each human individual is the infrastructure that makes up the social unit, and when the individual forms a collective, a society appears.
The relationship between the individual and society is the unity of opposites, man is a social existence, and sociality is the essential attribute of man.
The survival of the individual is inseparable from the protection of society, and the establishment of society is inseparable from the value of the individual.
In this process, how to coordinate the interests of the two, that is, personal interests and social interests, is a huge problem, and only when both sides jointly promote can a win-win situation be formed.
Any idea that wants to replace or even override social values with personal values will find it difficult to achieve a satisfactory result.
▲Kanagawa Prefecture is one of the satellite cities of Tokyo
In 2016, there was a vicious injury case in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and the root cause of this case was the murderer's distorted social values.
First, the late-night massacre
Kanagawa Prefecture is close to Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and is a densely populated area around the Tokyo area, where the economic conditions are very developed.
Due to its abundant revenues, Kanagawa Prefecture spent a fortune on the construction of a Tsukuiyama Lily Garden, which belongs to a government-established welfare home to house "special disabled people."
▲ Patients with high behavioral disorders in the film and television drama "Prison Break"
This group is called "specially disabled" because the disabled people in the park are not patients with limb or organ disabilities in the traditional sense.
Instead, they are even more physically robust than the average person, belonging to the "Strong Behavioral Disorder" (SBD) patients.
Most of these patients suffer from autism, psychiatric disorders or intellectual disabilities, and their behavior is often more aggressive than ordinary people.
When they get sick, they are mentally confused, very difficult to control, randomly hurt others or themselves, and the frequency of the onset is very high.
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In the early morning of July 26, 2016, the lights in Tsukuiyama Lily Garden had been extinguished, and the patients had taken medicine to sleep.
A small number of accompanying caregivers also returned to their respective rest areas.
Who would have thought that in just a few minutes, this peaceful and tranquil atmosphere would be broken, and a terrible tragedy was coming.
A 26-year-old young man with more than three years of work experience in Tsukuiyama Yuri Garden, Uematsu Seiji, took advantage of the cover of night to rely on his familiarity with the park accumulated during his work.
Carrying four knives, he entered the garden through the window and began the massacre.
At that time, there were 8 nurses and 1 guard, as well as 147 patients, spread across the east and west buildings.
Uematsu-san sneaks into the East Building, where there are more elderly patients and less mobility.
After entering the ward, he touched the patient's bedside, quickly cut the patient's throat with a knife, and then immediately attacked the next patient.
▲ Busy police at the scene
Due to the relatively adequate preparation of Uematsu Sei, it may also be related to the poor physical fitness of the patient, the cruelty of the murderer, and the lack of security forces.
In the process of killing people, no one even stood up to resist, so the whole process went very smoothly.
This also led to a large number of eventual victims, with 19 direct deaths, 20 serious injuries and 6 minor injuries.
At about three o'clock in the morning, Uematsu-san came to the nearby police station with the tools of the crime and calmly turned himself in.
The policeman on duty late at night saw his arrival and at first thought it was just an ordinary helper or a jerk.
It was not until I listened to the contents of his surrender that I felt the seriousness of the situation.
Immediately reported the situation to the top level of the police station, and the police immediately gathered various forces to go to the Tsukuai Mountain Lily Park to rescue the injured.
After the police and doctors arrived, the Japanese media with a keen sense of smell also quickly arrived at the scene.
As soon as they entered the east building of the Tsukuiyama Lily Garden, everyone was shocked by the tragic scene in front of them.
The deceased lay calmly on the bed, the blood had stained the sheets red, and the wounded could not make a sound because the throat tube was separated, so they could only raise their hands, open their mouths to make a scream, and their bodies twisted strangely.
Due to the huge social influence of this case, after the murderer Uematsu Sei turned himself in, the case immediately entered the trial stage.
People all over Japan wanted to know what the purpose of this sunny and handsome boy was.
Second, the background of the murderer
Through investigation, the police found out the background of Uematsu-san, whose home is only 500 meters away from Tsukuaiyama Lily Garden.
He is a native of the country, hard-working and studious from an early age, with an excellent reputation, and under the influence of his father, a primary school teacher, Uematsu Seiji also aspired to become a teacher.
▲ Photograph of the murderer
When the 22-year-old Seiji Uematsu graduated from Teikyo University, a prestigious private university in Tokyo's Itabashi-ku district, he was unable to fulfill his dream in the demanding Japanese teacher qualification exam.
In order to survive, he had to enter Tsukuiyama Yurien as a temporary worker, and four months later, Uematsu Seiji turned positive with good work performance.
He began his career as a caregiver for nearly 4 years.
However, in February 2016, five months before the case, Uematsu was dissuaded by Tsukuaiyama Yurien.
Judging from the series of events that occurred later, there may have been a large contradiction between Tsukuiyama Lily Garden and Uematsu Seki, and the so-called exhortation is only a decent official statement.
Because during his work at Uematsu, he lost his patience in taking care of patients at first, and some of his actions made the hospital intolerable.
In between the crime and before the surrender, the murderer posted a new update on social software, which read, "World Peace, Beautiful Japan." And it was accompanied by a selfie with an eerie smile.
Japanese psychologists believe that this is actually a common behavior that appears after he is persuaded to retire, that is, he is keen to express his personal wishes in a public way, which involves politics, society, and thought, so that others will doubt his mental state.
▲ The murderer's social software
Just a few days before the retreat, Uematsu wrote a letter of opinion to Rimori Oshima, then speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.
In the letter, he put forward the idea that the disabled people in Japan are all burdens on society, kidnapping the entire society to help them.
Therefore, some people with disabilities should be killed, so as to liberate social productivity, boost the Japanese economy, and enhance Japan's national strength!
We don't know what Riso Oshima thinks about these radical elements.
However, the trigger that led to the complete breakup between Tsukuiyama Yurien and Uematsu Seiji is certainly this letter of discrimination against people with disabilities.
Perhaps from this time on, Uematsu Seiji had the will to take revenge on his former owner.
From the social software and the confessions of neighbors, we can see that after being persuaded to quit, Uematsu-san's life was terrible.
During this time, he was arrested for smoking marijuana, and then repeatedly suspected of being aggressive and sent to the police station for bizarre behavior such as running naked on the street and making shooting remarks.
His girlfriend, who has been in love for many years, also broke up with him at this time.
▲ The radical remarks of the murderer
According to former colleagues who are relatively close to Seiji Uematsu.
In fact, as early as 2015, they found that Uematsu Sheng had thoughts and remarks that harmed people with disabilities, which showed that Uematsu Sheng's time for planning such events may have been greatly advanced.
3. Suspicious motives
After turning himself in, Uematsu immediately admitted that he was "retaliating because he was persuaded to resign." ”
However, after combing through various clues, the police came to the conclusion that this was not his real motive.
Because Uematsu's motives are far more complicated than revenge for killing people.
Some people suspect that Uematsu-san suffered some kind of harm while caring for a patient, so he wanted to take revenge.
As mentioned above, the "highly behavioral disorder" patients in the park are very aggressive, and Uematsu Sei, who has just entered the workplace, may have been beaten or abused.
Even if the park side finally came forward to calm down the matter in various forms, Uematsu Sei's heart may have left a deep shadow.
He began to hate people with disabilities, and eventually found an excuse to "reduce the burden on society".
▲ The murderer's letter to Ryomori Oshima
There are also people who suspect that Uematsu's crime is related to money, such as his letter to Ryomori Oshima that he believes that he should eliminate the disabled and is willing to carry out the plan himself.
In return, he hoped that the Japanese government would grant him "new status, new passport, acquittal pardon, and half a billion yen."
There are also people who suspect that Uematsu Seiji suffered from the painful fact of losing his job, being abandoned by his girlfriend, and being embarrassed by his life, which caused him to be in a state of mental instability and impulsively committed acts of revenge against society.
Ultimately, the prevailing Japanese view was that although Seiji Uematsu had some degree of "narcissistic personality disorder," this mental disorder did not interfere with his subjective consciousness.
Uematsu Himself has a strong antisocial personality, combined with his tragic life experience, which eventually led to the vicious case with the largest number of casualties in Japan after World War II.
▲ The strange tattoo on the back of the murderer
On January 8, 2020, Uematsu was tried by judges at the Yokohama District Court in Japan on charges of homicide and other crimes.
The hearing consisted of several days of preparatory days, for a total of 26 sessions.
It was not until March 16 that the Yokohama District Court announced that Seiji Uematsu would be sentenced to death.
Although Uematsu's holy sin deserved it, the influence of the case in Japan has not subsided.
Japanese nationals believe that due to the large number of victims involved in the case and the bad social impact, the prosecution must increase the severity of the sentence.
However, even if the death penalty is carried out, the motive of Uematsu's crime has not been fully excavated, and how to understand his mental journey and avoid similar tragedies is the most important question next.
As a physically and mentally sound person, in the process of contacting people with disabilities, Uematsu Sheng has developed disgust and even hatred for them for various subjective and objective reasons.
Naively believing that the society in which they live is not good enough is because social resources are too much occupied by people with disabilities.
Thus deepening the antagonism between the two sides, he ignores the social attributes and social values of people with disabilities, which is a selfish expression that puts personal values above social values.
Eventually, under radical antisocial thinking, this tragedy occurred.
This case also enlightens the world that, on the one hand, people with disabilities should have received more care and help from society due to their physical and psychological disadvantages.
Everyone should not discriminate, do not harm the disabled, respect and care for the vulnerable groups, which is also a full embodiment of social progress.
On the other hand, we should also always pay attention to the mental health of caregivers who take care of these disabled people and avoid the recurrence of similar tragedies.
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The relevant content of this article about the case of the disabled person in Tsukuiyama Lily Garden refers to the People's Daily "Involving 19 Lives, the Japanese Prosecutor Demands the Death Penalty of Former Employees of the Welfare Home", published on 2020-02-24