>>16501750Anyway, so, considering everything, just why the fuck would you self-immolate over this? It's an absolute zero chance that any impact will come out of it, and even if it did, it wouldn't be a good thing. There would just be more suffering overall if the US didn't participate in the war.
This is just throwing your life away for absolutely nothing. It's quite honestly not that different from teenagers who kill themselves because of parents taking away their devices and stuff, which happens. He was pretty obviously mentally ill, and all he did was attach himself to some moral ideal to justify ending his life.
But it's somehow seen as heroic because he preaches muh war bad. Nothing is going to be done to help people like him. Let alone that, the exact opposite will be done, by just glorifying these absolutely retarded acts and leading more confused people to do the same.
This was apparently the third person at the time to have self-immolated in protest of the Gulf War. You know what would've prevented it? If the other two people who burnt themselves alive for no reason weren't glorified and regarded as heroes for it. Then this guy wouldn't have looked at that, and decided it was justified for him to do the same. While it's completely pointless to do so, in every single way imaginable.
All you're doing is manipulating these sad and mentally ill people into believing that this is the way for them to have had some worth with their life.
From how the articles describe it, he was lonely and didn't do much with his life up to that point. I obviously don't know for sure, but I imagine that he thought this would be the way for him to potentially make some positive impact and leave his mark. But the reality is that it was impossible for that to happen. If only he hadn't been led to thinking otherwise, and instead actually doing something with his life to really make that positive impact on people. Too bad.
