“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

  • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    4 days ago

    So if someone set themselves on fire to protest immigration or against gay rights you’d say ‘let’s sir down and work out how to ban homosexuality because it’s obviously a valid issue if someone killed themselves over it’

    Of course not, how would you respond if 50 kkk members killed themselves to protest in favor of segregation? Or if a Facebook group full of flat earthers burned themselves to protest? Would that make their cause valid?

    • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
      41·
      4 days ago

      Find me one self immolation for those things and I’ll concede the point. Otherwise the fact you can’t find one proves no one would ever self immolate something so stupid.