Yusuke Narita, who teaches economics, advocated for euthanizing Japan’s elderly in an interview with the New York Times.
“A Yale economics professor has some ideas for how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. The ‘only solution,’ he said, is mass suicide of the elderly, including ritual disembowelment,” the Times wrote in a Twitter post promoting the story....Stephen Kinsella, a professor at the University of Limerick, called Narita a “lad looking for attention.”
“Having read the piece, the headline should be: Lad looking for attention to advance his career uses deliberately inflammatory language and walks that language back immediately once he gets a bit of notice. End of,” Kinsella wrote...
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