Unjustifiable Murders

Response #5 to "Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence"

Reading this article, one thing that stuck out to me was that the number of murders committed has been growing over time. The author, Hamamoto, lists the different types of murders and goes into detail for each one. I was also surprised that there are some people in the world who murder others for the sake of pleasure, such as Ted Bundy, people who kill others because of resentment against others, such as Patrick Eugene Purdy’s resentment against Asians, and people who kill their own family members, such as Charles Joseph Whitman. The motives of the murders are simply unjustifiable. It is not right to kill others just because you resent someone and it is certainly never acceptable to kill your own family members. In addition, one thing that seemed really strange to me was that when Bundy was executed, women would mourn for him. Later, as I read the rest of the article, I was surprised to see that a lot of the victims of the unjustifiable murders were Asians.

Question: Why do you think that Asians are targeted as victims of murders often? What do you think should be done about this?

Jianying Yang

Section A02

Jack Wayne Reeves