'We Are All Culpable': Third American Self-Immolates to Protest Israel's Gaza Onslaught

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It just makes him look like an mentally ill suicide victim.

Imagine looking at this and reaching the conclusion that it is he and not the world that has gone mad.

Anyone who blames themselves for something they have absolutely no say in or control over, to the degree they are willing to set themselves on fire over it, is mentally ill.

Your confused. Self-immolation isn't about self-punishment anymore than any other protest method.

It's the "we are all culpable" leading to the immolation that's indicative of mental illness.

He said "we are all culpable" not "I alone am culpable."

I think most if not all of the "he's nuts" talk is from people who would rather not consider themselves culpable.

He said “we are all culpable” not “I alone am culpable.”

And that's stupid binary thinking and he was wrong.

I think most if not all of the “he’s nuts” talk is from people who would rather not consider themselves culpable.

Thus.

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Any world in which the principal superpower lets a tiny nation write its foreign policy for it, to the point where that superpower is giving the tiny nation the means to commit genocide and refuses to stop, is a profoundly sick world.

Israel attacked an intelligence gathering ship to prevent it from realizing that Israel was the one starting shit in Syria... then the US really started supporting it.

Israel is a blight on the world.

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What, are you 16? Do you think this is some kind of life-changing insight?

It changes nothing. He's still dead and the genocide continues for your entertainment.

I'm gonna say the guy that self immolated was not mentally well even if I agree with his cause

By comparison with a world in which the major superpower can't muster a candidate who opposes genocide? Yeah, the world is way sicker than this guy was.

I'm not nor was I comparing it to anything. If you self immolate, that's a very strong indicator you're not mentally well. Again, I agree with their cause but it's really weird to imply they were mentally healthy when they decided to light themselves on fire and die horrifically

What does sanity even mean in an insane world?

Wow, that's some deep thought, there, R D Laing. What if we're the crazy ones?

People close to me have schizophrenia. It's as much a disease as cancer is. If you don't believe that, you've never experienced it up close, or you have an inability to learn from direct experience.

People close to me have schizophrenia.

Same. I don't use their illness as an excuse to ignore atrocities.

I mean dude did kill himself by setting himself on fire. That's pretty nuts

I mean, we're kinda working on that as a species as well.

And would you call that sane?

Nope. But we're gonna keep doing it anyway, and calling this guy crazy because it's easier than admitting that we are all culpable.

You are in no position to determine my degree of culpability, or that of anyone who's not pulling a trigger.

a guy committed suicide by setting himself on fire

yeah but you know global warming, so aren't we all crazy

Friend, come on

If you want to pretend that we live on a sane planet, well, when on Earth, do as the Earthlings do, I guess.

I'm saying killing yourself over US actions isn't a sane move. You brought up global warming in reply as if that meant anything in this discussion.

I’m saying killing yourself over US actions isn’t a sane move.

And I'm saying that no product of this barking mad oblate spheroid is qualified to make that assessment. But dismissing him as insane is a great way to not have to treat his rebuke to humanity as the just condemnation it is.

He did covered himself in gasoline and light that up as a form of suicide. It does sound a bit insane.

Maybe one day someone will say something that causes you to consider similar words to his. Oh who am I kiddin'. It's just crazy talk.

Maybe one day someone will say something that causes you to consider similar words to his.

I'm sorry but I have no idea what this means. Similar words to whose, what words?

I’m sorry but I have no idea what this means.

Yeah, I know. It wasn't support for genocide, so you didn't listen at all.

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