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NEWS: Kyoto Animation Fire Suspect Arrested After 10 Months

The idea would be to try and prevent these "evil SOBs" from ever going down that path in the first place.

While you, seemingly, do not like the death penalty, calling them judicial killings is insulting. Criminals kill people, the legal system executes people.

Yes, technically, they are interchangeable. Nonetheless, calling them killings implies evil intent.

He probably is also mentally ill, but that no longer matters.

Here's my problem with dismissing the arsonist as a monster and his act as evil: while emotionally satisfying on a certain level, using that characterization isn't helpful in trying to prevent acts like this in the future.

If you frame this simply in the terms of evil and monsters, then the only defense you can offer is prayer. Let's pray that something like this doesn't happen again. For a non-religious person like myself, that's not a particularly satisfying response.

I frame these incidents in the context of mental health issues, not good and evil. That way, you can actually try to formulate a defense that is based on research, medicine and science. Our understanding of human behaviour and mental health is unfortunately still pretty primitive.

However, you can imagine that as time goes by, as knowledge accumulates, as we move forward by trial and error, we may eventually get to a point where we can possibly identify those who might commit acts like this ahead of time and in doing so, perhaps be able to provide some kind of intervention/treatment that would preclude a person from wanting to do such a thing.

That to me seems like a more fruitful approach rather than just dismissing something as "evil."

Why is the government determining where the donations go? Shouldn't KyoAni be doing that? People didn't donate to the government.

The state is planning to allow donations to the Kyoto-based animation producer to be fully treated as deductible expenses by having them delivered through local governments, they said.

It is unusual for the government to consider giving preferential tax treatment to support a specific company. The initiative was proposed by a group of lawmakers late last month and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga pledged to deal with the issue after receiving their suggestions.

Financial aid to a specific company by individuals is not eligible for tax breaks. Meanwhile, all donations either from companies or individuals to local municipalities can be treated as deductible expenses.

Am I the only one whose blood boils at the very idea that this guy's STILL able to get medical attention after the murders/damage he committed?