Deceptichum@quokk.au to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMan sets himself on fire outside Israeli consulate in Boston, USwww.presstv.irexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1340arrow-down113
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minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months agoBut suicide by self immolation because of it? Why? What drives a person to do that? If you’re willing to die for the cause, why not immolate the Israeli consul for example?
minus-squarePolydoreSmith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoBecause they would be labeled as a terrorist and promptly dismissed. Gandhi wasn’t perfect, but he knew how to get shit done. The US is the most destructive and lethal country in the world, just like Kamala said at the DNC.
minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoGandhi did non-violent protests. He didn’t burn himself alive, nobody would remember him if he did
But suicide by self immolation because of it?
Why? What drives a person to do that?
If you’re willing to die for the cause, why not immolate the Israeli consul for example?
Because they would be labeled as a terrorist and promptly dismissed. Gandhi wasn’t perfect, but he knew how to get shit done. The US is the most destructive and lethal country in the world, just like Kamala said at the DNC.
Gandhi did non-violent protests.
He didn’t burn himself alive, nobody would remember him if he did