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Y.M.(Female),a high school junior (11th grade) in Kyoto, Japan

The number of brutal crimes by young people is on the rise. There are many people who say that a child's heart is always the same, but is it really so? Every time I hear about the cruel crimes by young people and think that something is wrong with the heart of children of today, I'm afraid of increasing such young people.
These young people who commit brutal crimes often have the same tendencies. The first one is that they like virtual-spaces, which are produced by TV-, video- and TV-Gamescreens. The realistic and precocious children of today have lived surrounded by high-technology-apparatus since they were born, so they live experiences without making a distinction between virtual and realistic experience. Besides, most of the movies, videos and TV-games, which are made for children, involve violence and sex only with the aim of raising the manufacturer's return without thinking about how much stimulation the children get. That is why the children, who have had many experiences of violence and sex in the virtual world, commit brutal crimes like professionals, even if it was their first action in the real world.
Their second tendency is that they don't try to speak much. In this society there are a lot of children who don't ask a question, ask for help or for instructions. It doesn't mean that they have an independent spirit; they only trust others and have a big dependence. They believe the other party will voluntarily assist them. Because of that these young people live more isolated as they grow older.
Last but not least, one tendency that I can mention is that they cannot guess what the other people are thinking or they cannot understand what kind of feelings in different cases other people have. Normally, when a child grows older, he can guess little by little what others think about him, but the young people about whom I am speaking cannot realize how they are seen by other people. So they sometimes obstinately run after someone whom they love without noticing that they are hated by these persons. People like these are called Stalkers. And because they don't understand other people's worries, problems and pain, they have the tendency to attack other people with excessive violence.
In conclusion, we should think about these problems that the young people have at the present and find out the cause and good prescriptions not to make the same mistake. If not, the tragedies will repeat and never end.

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