Section 1
Week 5
The murders and rapes described in Hamamoto’s “Empire of Death” are horribly sickening. He describes serial murders, but these serial killers/rapists can’t be simply written off as “crazy”. It’s much too simple and dehumanizing to simply write off these killers as crazy. As part of an advancing society, we need to learn how to understand what shapes mass murderers and try to prevent developing them. The key influence in many of these mass murders and rapes, Hamamoto asserts, is the Vietnam war. In some instances, there was mass murder and rape of the Vietnamese people during the war. Hamamoto posits that this widespread killing and hyper-militarism by the United States “normalizes and justifies” the murder of Asians in some eyes. My question is, have violent murder rates increasing in other countries who have gone to war?
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