On 5/11/16 10:03 AM, Tim wrote:

8:40 AMKeyser Söze
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Well, of course you don't feel sorry for the monk, because he was a
buddhist protesting christian barbarism and gross discrimination towards
his people.

The reality is that the self-immolation by that monk helped bring down a
brutal government, albeit it was replaced by one that equaled it in
corruption. The monk's act and the spreading of the photos of it around
the world changed history.
....

IE "look at me. I'm going to kill myself for a cause"

whatever. Same goes for hunger strikes. Just a more permanent end to the kid who holds its breath till it turns blue...


History is full of religious martyrs who died for a cause. Where would
your religion be if the guy it is named after made a different set of
decisions, assuming for the moment that any of that tale happened as
described.