It detracts from the agency, moral clarity, and legitimacy of some of the most important people in history, people who stood up for causes absolutely knowing they were going to die for it.I feel like there are people who did it with dignity and poise who were very much of sane mind when they did it, yes. I also think there has been at least one person (the guy in this topic) who do it on an impulse and left behind two children because he was extremely unwell, mentally.
This is what happens to a country's people when its leaders commit/facilitate genocide.
They're giving them CPR?
People have been making ideological and political moves that self harm, that have nothing to do with the Israeli/Gaza war.
Dude literally yelled Free Palestine as he died
This is what happens to a country's people when its leaders commit/facilitate genocide.
I like how he did it in protest, yet there is no headline that says he's protesting. It's just "man sets himself on fire"https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4a7246e9.jpg
This is what happens to a country's people when its leaders commit/facilitate genocide.Is this is why Americans have been routinely setting themselves on fire for hundreds of years?
Americans don't like to/unable to recognize their country's crimes very often. That's why you have the media narrative, and the headlines we're seeing.And yet we didn't burn the country to the ground the multiple times our own government committed genocide and other crimes against humanity on our own soil. But the government continuing to turn a blind eye to Israel's reprehensible actions and suddenly we all deserve to suffer?
Also no one is saying that the most extreme act of protest you can do is the most common. That wouldn't make any sense.
These two claims have nothing to do with one another, and yes, there is doubt he had mental health issues. Risking your life to bring attention to an issue you think is of imminent and profound moral importance does not diagnose you with mental illness.
What?I assume he means in, like, the "you don't risk your life by jumping off a skyscraper, the outcome is pretty expected" way.
If you set yourself on fire, you'll potentially die. The dude died. How is that not risking your life
I assume he means in, like, the "you don't risk your life by jumping off a skyscraper, the outcome is pretty expected" way.
But who knows.
Which is also wrong, stunt people and magicians do it. They're risking their lives and death is not guaranteed.There's a type of gelatin you cover yourself in for that, I've seen stunt professionals use it to walk a red carpet while literally aflame.
I assume he means in, like, the "you don't risk your life by jumping off a skyscraper, the outcome is pretty expected" way.
There's a type of gelatin you cover yourself in for that, I've seen stunt professionals use it to walk a red carpet while literally aflame.I only care about proving you can set yourself on fire and survive. Never said it was safe or safer.
So unless you slather up beforehand, professionals being able to do it safely doesn't make lighting yourself on fire safer.
Congratulations?That's more than I usually get when I'm correct.
do you think stunt people just set themselves on fire without any protection whatsoever and risk their lives every time?Stunts can and have gone wrong. Technically everything risks people's lives.
And yet we didn't burn the country to the ground the multiple times our own government committed genocide and other crimes against humanity on our own soil. But the government continuing to turn a blind eye to Israel's reprehensible actions and suddenly we all deserve to suffer?
People actually did set themselves on fire to protest the Vietnam War, so yes it's happened before. The fact that you didn't know about it doesn't change the truth.America, the entire country has fucking sucked forever. Why is Israel genociding Palestinians the straw that breaks our will to live?