Japan Went the Wrong Way

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Some years ago, minimum age of consent for sexual acts was 13, minimum age for a man to marry was 18, minimum age for a woman to marry was 16 with parental consent.

Recently, the age of consent for sexual acts was raised to 16, and apparently also the female marital age to 18.

One should instead have lowered the ages of marriage so they coincided with the age of sexual consent.

Male, 16 with parental consent, or as low as 13 if he gets a girl pregnant.

Female, 13 with parental consent, or even lower if she gets pregnant.

And abortion should have been forbidden, contraceptives forbidden or at least left unsponsored from now on, at least contraceptives like pills or sterilettes should be forbidden, since they are causing very early abortions, as well as non-fertilisation of ova.

Some may pretend I feel this way because of my love for manga. I feel this way because I have been a teacher to girls who would have been better off married, not all of them necessarily my style. It was a short while, I ended up falling in love with one of my expupils in an effort to fall out of love with two* other ones, and it didn't work out, and the reaction went ballistic over my liberties, but even if I had hooked up with one of the two teachers that replaced me in 1996 (yes, I was in love with both, and both were Catholics), I'd feel the same about the principle.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
V Lord's Day after Easter
5/V.2024

* First one, I thought too young at 13, I did not know the Church Laws from before 1983 and 1917, second was 14, as the minimal age required, since 1917, but her parents were Atheist and Left leaning, I was afraid they would overreact. Instead it was the supposedly Christian and Conservative parents of girl 3, whom I decided to chose among these, that overreacted and ... well, made some contribution to ruin my life for some time. In either of the cases, I intended (if the feelings had been recriprocated) to do some effort to stay minimally legal in Sweden, get an exception when the girl was 15, and then honourably marry. From her reaction and some other reactions, I think some suspected some very different plan.

Horrible News from Japan

Here is a story which I read of in Citizen Go:

A married, 26-year-old woman from the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka who works for a cosmetics company was handed a document mapping the permitted childbirth and child-rearing schedules for her and each of her 22 female colleagues—outlining exactly when they are allowed to have children. According to the schedule, she must wait to conceive until she is approximately 35 years old.

Yet, already two years into her marriage, she is having difficultly [sic] conceiving. “How is (my work) going to take responsibility if I put off getting pregnant and lose my chances to have children altogether?” she wonders.

Her boss’s response is, “Work gets backed up if four or more people take time off at the same time. Selfish behavior will be subject to punishment.”

This means, what Government is doing in Red China, Employers are doing in Japan.

Limiting childbirth.

Malthusianism is very popular with employers (and in Red China, government is or used to be biggest employer) who have no conscience that the employees are first and foremost created in God's image, and have rights and duties to God and to the family before they have so to their employers.

This is why both Big Business Capitalism and Communism is wrong. And why small business should operate under regulations.

Normally, in a country with some social conscience - I can even take Sweden on this one - a company saying that would have to pay damages to the employees, so it would lose money on trying that evil scheme. Probably a fine to the state as well. And paying the costs for the court procedings.

Another favourite apart from Malthusianism with such people is Kantianism. To Kant, being "selfish" is the essence of sin.

To Saint Paul the phrase lovers of themselves occurs exactly once:

"Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,"
[2 Timothy 3:2]

Note, it would seem that Saint Paul is enumerating conditions of personal (or communal) morality which will be prominent in the last days. But he is not saying that each one of these is the essence of evil (if one, it is more probably covetous or haughty/proud), nor that someone can chose to stamp anyone as evil by arbitrarily assigning one of these characteristics to a certain behaviour.

And in the Douay Rheims Bible, the phrase "lovers of themselves" occurs exactly this one time.

Loving oneself has in other places a good connotation, namely about moral behaviour in general "love thy neighbour as thyself" (similar to but after "love God of all thy heart"), which implies there is such a thing as loving oneself in a right way, and also about marriage "nobody every hated his own flesh".

This last point, loving one's flesh, is certainly to the point when it comes to procreation. This is what marriage was instituted for, thousands of years before there were any Japanese employers. Yamashita Cave Man is probably post-Flood, and Pinza-Abu Cave Man, Minatogawa people, the people buried in Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins are certainly so, with very little doubt (none for Minatogawa people).

So, since Japanese don't come around till after the Flood, which is 2242 years after God said to Adam and Eve "be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28), and this Flood was 4975 years ago and even Minatogawa people certainly older than 4620 years ago, how come so lately some Japanese business man imagines he can change God's plan for the family?

An employer may tell you "you need to do this to work" but he needs to remember, you work to pay for your children's upkeep, you don't get children to please your employer or to suit your work.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Prosper of Aquitaine
25.VI.2018

Trois niveaux de maltraitance

En Japon, on pousse les ouvriers à travailler des heures supplémentaires jusqu'à provoquer rien que pour ça des suicides:

Japan overwork deaths among young show lessons unlearned
on mail.com
https://www.mail.com/int/news/world/4689262-japan-overwork-deaths-young-lessons-unlearned.html

TOKYO (AP) — Matsuri Takahashi's dream career at Japan's top ad agency, Dentsu, ended with her suicide as her overtime pushed past 100 hours a month. "I'm emotionless and only wish to sleep," she wrote, exhausted and depressed, in a Twitter post in October 2015, six months after starting the job. On Christmas day, the 24-year-old leaped from a dormitory balcony, leaving behind a last email to her mother saying her work and life had become unbearable.

En France en général, on est en train d'augmenter la flexibilité pour davantage d'heures supplémentaires.

En région parisienne, il y a des gens qui ne veulent pas que je dors très bien.

D'abord je suis déjà fatigué à 9 h hier soir. Ensuite, un homme (non beur) m'oblige à me lever pour chercher un autre endroit, même si je dis que je suis très fatigué, et ceci à 10:30 qq, quand j'avais déjà commencé à dormir ou à m'endormir. Ensuite, j'arrive à Nanterre U, mais plus tard il y a deux interruptions de sommeil : une fois deux gardiens (beurs), une fois deux amis qui s’assoient et bavardent - mais qui me quittent./HGL