英語検定ライティング準１級（第450回）

カードゲーム「対戦相手は敵ではない話」

財務省はこっそりと増税する。いつの間にか軽自動車税が上がっていて怒りを禁じ得なかった。誰が総理大臣の時にその税制を変えたのかと調べると２年前に暗殺されていた。不謹慎になるのでこれ以上は言わないが自民党は日本を駄目にしてきた。
The Finance Ministry secretly increase the rate of taxes.
The other day, when we pay the automobile taxes, we cannot but become furious about the increased rate.
And we researched who the prime minister was when the rate of automobile taxes was raised, which showed that he was the late ex-prime minister who was assassinated in Nara in 2022, but we didn’t know who did so, she says.
When we describe about the increased taxes more, this might be something inappropriate, so we had better stop talking about him, although the Liberal Democratic Party has maintained what Japan is, where someone wealthy, profitable candidates cannot fail to win the election.

大躍進政策を進めた独裁者は無能だったのではない。専門家の意見を取り入れる度量がなかっただけだ。だが彼のその態度が大飢饉を引き起こすこととなる。スズメを殺せば生態系が崩壊しイナゴがそれ以上に食い荒らすことなど素人に分からない。
A certain dictator in China started the notorious “Great Leap Forward” in 1950’s, which forced about 50,000,000 ordinary citizens in the rural areas to starve to death.
We might safely call him someone incapable because his agricultural and industrial strategies failed to work well, but he was actually someone educated, everyone knows.
He should have allowed numerous experts to argue how to become profitable and productive, but he didn’t have any intentions and attitudes to accept others’ opinions.
However, his failures resulted in something catastrophic, in short, the terrible famines killed a tremendously large number of innocent ordinary citizens in his nation.
Only scientists had the information that killing numerous sparrows would lead to increasing the number of another harmful creatures like locusts, a kind of grasshopper, so that his reckless approaches destroyed the ecosystem, after all, an extremely large number of locusts attacked the rice fields over China, which ate up the rice there.

自己批判という言葉は連合赤軍を想起させる。程度がある一線を越えれば生命に関わる。他者を苦境に陥れることで精神を安定させる。世直しなどせずに自分の歪んだ精神を改善しろと言いたい。人間はただのうんこ製造機だ。他者に批判を迫るな。
The word “self-criticism” reminds us of the violent acts caused by the members of United Red Army in 1972.
Their violence brought several companions in the same organizations into the critical and lethal situations since almost all members were filled with something stressful and frustrating, which required them to find someone targeted and they might resort to violence, she assumes.
After all, seeing someone injured refreshed themselves.
Their destinations were to improve our society, in short, they wanted to alter somewhere challenging into their own paradise and utopia, which is the virtual heaven.
Almost all ordinary citizens in our society couldn’t accept their attitudes towards the reality because public people struggled and survived somewhere tough and hard to protect something important and indispensable, he says.
They should have criticized their twisted and disgusting mentalities instead of innocent university students.
Our species are only poop-producing machines, so we never have any rights to injure others’ emotions, he says.