As to the deeper causes of the tragedy, Shih Chi-ching, founder of the Warm Life Association for Women, believes that Taiwan's education system produces many people who are "intellectually civilized but emotional savages."
整樁慘案，究其因果，晚晴協會創辦人施寄青認為，教育體制製造出許多「智育的文明人，感情的野蠻人」。