[/floatl]Yomiuri: Survey respondents say human rights abuses, slander rising
A record-high percentage of Japanese feel that human rights abuses have increased in recent years and that more people are asserting their own rights without considering others, according to a Cabinet Office survey. A growing proportion of people also believe human rights abuses on the Internet--such as slandering others or the posting of inappropriate photos--have increased since the previous poll on the safeguarding of human rights in 2003. Forty-two percent of respondents said human rights abuses "have increased," a rise of 5.8 percentage points from the 2003 poll, while 40.3 percent said there had been "little change." This was the first time since the first such survey in 1958 that people who felt abuses had increased outnumbered those who did not. When asked, "Do you think more people assert only their own rights and don't consider the inconvenience they might cause others?" 85.2 percent of respondents--an increase of 8.5 percentage points--said "yes," while those saying "no" slipped 3.6 percentage points to 12.7 percent, according to the survey results, which were announced Saturday. The number of people who thought human rights abuses on the Internet had increased jumped five percentage points from the 2003 survey to 32.7 percent...more...
But I'm not sure who would wind up more hurt... 
