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>Charles R. Moore, burnt himself in protest of social injustice.
>“I would much prefer to go on living and enjoy my beloved wife and grandchildren and others, but I have come to believe that only my self-immolation will get the attention of anybody and perhaps inspire some to higher service,”
As you could guess, it inspired nothing. He was just shit on by his local articles and caught little attention. All he did was cause his family suffering.
My main wondering is just why these people think they will have any impact. This dude was educated and all, as well. You'd figure he'd be somewhat rational?
They don't understand, in this day and age, nobody cares about some random retard self-immolating. It's nothing new. Everybody remembers that monk who did it, because he was pretty much the first to burn himself alive for a cause. It was absolutely baffling to anybody who heard it at the time, I'm pretty sure. The traction around that was what actually did something for his cause, people cared for it enough.
But here, however many years later, there have been thousands and thousands of self-immolations. Many over absolutely retarded and insignificant causes. All of this leads to it just not having the same impact it did as before. It's comparable to a YouTube fad that's really big and impressive at the start, thanks to whoever came up with it, then turns into something everybody rolls their eyes at by the end of it's lifetime. Just that it's over a way longer period.
What's going on inside the heads of people who do it thinking they're gonna bring any real change whatsoever to anything, is like people making their Minecraft let's plays in 2022 expecting to go big. But that tends to be within younger people. Here, it's a lot of people who should know better, who could figure it out if they thought about it for a minute, still somehow failing to see how deluded their expectations are. They still genuinely believe that self-immolation has any serious impact.
