意識の深層 The Deep Structure of the“Untouchable Person”The Collapse of Trust, Dark Personality,and the Complementarity of Good and Evil
Redefining the “Untouchable Person” for the Contemporary EraIn contemporary Japanese society, the nuance carried by the phrase muteki no hito — roughly, “the untouchable person” — has begun eroding from its original image of the extreme criminal into something far more quotidian and psychological. First popularized around 2008 as internet slang attributed to Hiroyuki Nishimura, the concept originally described individuals who, having nothing left to lose socially, feel no deterrent from legal sanctions such as arrest or capital punishment.