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'We Are All Culpable': Third American Self-Immolates to Protest Israel's Gaza Onslaught
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Imagine looking at this and reaching the conclusion that it is he and not the world that has gone mad.
Anyone who blames themselves for something they have absolutely no say in or control over, to the degree they are willing to set themselves on fire over it, is mentally ill.
Your confused. Self-immolation isn't about self-punishment anymore than any other protest method.
Any world in which the principal superpower lets a tiny nation write its foreign policy for it, to the point where that superpower is giving the tiny nation the means to commit genocide and refuses to stop, is a profoundly sick world.
Israel attacked an intelligence gathering ship to prevent it from realizing that Israel was the one starting shit in Syria... then the US really started supporting it.
Israel is a blight on the world.
What, are you 16? Do you think this is some kind of life-changing insight?
It changes nothing. He's still dead and the genocide continues for your entertainment.
I'm gonna say the guy that self immolated was not mentally well even if I agree with his cause
By comparison with a world in which the major superpower can't muster a candidate who opposes genocide? Yeah, the world is way sicker than this guy was.
I'm not nor was I comparing it to anything. If you self immolate, that's a very strong indicator you're not mentally well. Again, I agree with their cause but it's really weird to imply they were mentally healthy when they decided to light themselves on fire and die horrifically
What does sanity even mean in an insane world?
Wow, that's some deep thought, there, R D Laing. What if we're the crazy ones?
People close to me have schizophrenia. It's as much a disease as cancer is. If you don't believe that, you've never experienced it up close, or you have an inability to learn from direct experience.
Same. I don't use their illness as an excuse to ignore atrocities.
See a psychiatrist
For knowing that genocide is madness.