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Originally Posted by Oerets
Explain to me just how setting yourself on fire works as a protest?
I see it as a "I'll show you" "You'll be sorry" protest from a sick mind....
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It works not very well, any more. People just shrug you off as a suicidal nut. Back in the 1960s though the Buddhist monks doing it in South Vietnam shocked everyone and had a big impact. It was a new thing to everyone then.