Pretty dumb way to protest about anything. If you are ready to suffer, why not put on fire some AIPAC office instead of yourself. Or some Israeli shill politician who is one of the direct cause of Palestinian genocide. Then suffer in jail, if you like. At least it will be somehow useful and will do some damage to the rival.
Interesting, warriors on the battlefield does not shoot themselves to protest against what other side do. They try to do as much harm as possible to the rival, not to themselves. Even at the price of their own lives. Military man should definitely know that. But somehow he did exactly opposite.
Well, sometimes military kill themselves, but only as a last resort to save some honor in case they severely fucked things up or participated in some shit they know was completely wrong. As far as I understand, this dude didn't perticipate in Palestinian genocide. So there is no any reason for him to kill himself.
"Why? What motivated them? I put the question to any number of historians of self-immolation, but the best answer came from a scholar based in Washington, D.C., Timothy Dickinson. “Fire is the most dreaded of all forms of death,” he said, so “the sight of someone setting themselves on fire is simultaneously an assertion of intolerability and, frankly, of moral superiority. You say ‘I would never have the guts to do that. It’s not that he’s trying to tell me something, but that he’s commanding me.’ This isn’t insanity. It’s a terrible act of reason.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-terrible-act-of-reason-when-did-self-immolation-become-the-paramount-form-of-protest
My first night in Iraq the ceiling above my bunk had a red circle from a captain offing themselves two weeks prior, they left a pair of Oakley boots that fit my feet like feet gloves. People absolutely do kill themselves in war zones sometimes they find it too much to bear. He was part of a government that is providing weapons and money to fund the killers of children.
Pretty dumb way to protest about anything. If you are ready to suffer, why not put on fire some AIPAC office instead of yourself. Or some Israeli shill politician who is one of the direct cause of Palestinian genocide. Then suffer in jail, if you like. At least it will be somehow useful and will do some damage to the rival.
Interesting, warriors on the battlefield does not shoot themselves to protest against what other side do. They try to do as much harm as possible to the rival, not to themselves. Even at the price of their own lives. Military man should definitely know that. But somehow he did exactly opposite.
Well, sometimes military kill themselves, but only as a last resort to save some honor in case they severely fucked things up or participated in some shit they know was completely wrong. As far as I understand, this dude didn't perticipate in Palestinian genocide. So there is no any reason for him to kill himself.
Weird.
"Why? What motivated them? I put the question to any number of historians of self-immolation, but the best answer came from a scholar based in Washington, D.C., Timothy Dickinson. “Fire is the most dreaded of all forms of death,” he said, so “the sight of someone setting themselves on fire is simultaneously an assertion of intolerability and, frankly, of moral superiority. You say ‘I would never have the guts to do that. It’s not that he’s trying to tell me something, but that he’s commanding me.’ This isn’t insanity. It’s a terrible act of reason.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-terrible-act-of-reason-when-did-self-immolation-become-the-paramount-form-of-protest
My first night in Iraq the ceiling above my bunk had a red circle from a captain offing themselves two weeks prior, they left a pair of Oakley boots that fit my feet like feet gloves. People absolutely do kill themselves in war zones sometimes they find it too much to bear. He was part of a government that is providing weapons and money to fund the killers of children.