There has to be at least 6,000 better ways to make a point or oppose something than setting yourself on fire, though.

Having once labelled myself as kind of a Buddhist, too, I never understood and never respected Buddhist monks setting themselves ablaze, may it be during Vietnam or during the Chinese occupation.

The proper way to protest would be to set your enemy ablaze. :D

Protesting, and resisting to be forced to be or to do something one does not want to do and does not want to be, are not the same thing. Its two different things. The warrior who got defeate din battle and refusing to surrender, is not protesting when accpeting his death in a last chanceless fight. Somebody expressing his protest, not necessarily always is one who counts as a defeated.

You forgot to mention why we are suppose to care that this particular idiot lawyer killed himself. Because he is a fairy. So in truth, he didn't need to kill himself to take himself from the gene pool, he already had.

Maybe we can convience David Hogg to shoot himself with an AR-15 to protest gun violence? That would be a coup.

The idea that the left thinks I'm going to let a child, preach to me, about rights he doesn't even have the right to excersise, is just absolutely laughable at best, and a pure example of how stupid liberal logic is at worst.

Take care to not cut yourself on all that edge there.

My statements weren't meant to cut me, nor do they. They were intended to cut the other side of the coin. Nonetheless, thank you for your concern, but it isn't warranted. I don't need a Nanny, it's why I don't vote them into office. :03:

Back about 15 or so years ago, I was working in an office were there were several young interns, all not even born during the Vietnam war. One of the interns was asking some of the other older employees, like myself, about the times surrounding the Vietnam era. I made mention of the self-immolation protests by the Buddhist monks in Saigon; she expressed disbelief, so I searched out a clip of one of the protests online and showed it to her. Her reaction?... "Wow, he really must have felt strongly about the War!"...

My reaction? "Ya think?"...









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Im not sure Buddhists and in particular the guy who set himself on fire were protesting the Vietnam war in general. I think they were protesting Ngo Dinh Diem's Saigon pro-catholic government pogroms waged against the majority Buddhist population.

IIRC, there were several self-immolation incidents in SVN and, indeed, some were as a protest against the SVN government's treatment of Buddhists, but there were others either protesting the War outright or a combo of the war and the US support of the corrupt SVN government regime(s):


List of political self-immolations --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...lf-immolations









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