I have a hypothesis: "If parents are radical, children will be conservative.

I am a weekend engineer and writer who does not listen to (or refer to) other people's opinions (people who are said to be authorities),

even when it comes to so-called "social issues that are hard to talk about," such as aging and euthanasia (death with dignity), and I use the data and programs I have collected to go into them.

To be frank, my family treats me as a problem child.

"We don't care if you're a target of terrorism, but please don't let that happen to us"

They are really frank.

In particular, when I mentioned the "emperor system," they warned me, "It's really bad!"

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I once told a junior colleague that I wanted to write about the Chuukaku-ha (*1), Kakumaru-ha (*2), and the Japanese Red Army, and he said, "Mr. Ebata. Your family is a hostage! I was strongly opposed to the idea"

(*1)National Committee of the Revolutionary Communist League

(*2)Revolutionary Marxist Faction of the Japanese Revolutionary Communist League

Recently, when I mumbled about wanting to write about "North Korea," I was met with fierce opposition from my daughters.

Yeah, I know what this is -- it's definitely my daughters who are going to be the collateral damage.

So,

"If parents are radical, children will be conservative"

I believe that this hypothesis is quite correct.

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As a corollary to that hypothesis, there is an example,

"If the guardian (my father: deceased) is the owner of a factory in town, the child (me) becomes in a typical business person"

"Small business owners live in hell every day"

This is an undeniable fact that I have witnessed firsthand.

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The other day, my wife and I were watching the BS1 special "10 Years of Infiltration: The Dark Side of North Korea's Arms Business.

It was scarier than those novels and movies.

I realize that my daughters' concerns are quite correct.