Masochism is not nobility. These fuckers do not give a shit about whether you live or die. Why do you care if they do?
The point of this sort of thing is to attract public attention, not to directly persuade the authorities.
They might not care about the starving prisoner, but they’re much more likely to care about the general public turning on them.
How effective it will actually be in this case I couldn’t say, but historically it worked very well for the women’s rights movement.
It worked for a lot of things a century ago with wildly different ethics and, crucially, a parallel violent militant movement
Sometimes I think about the service member who self immolated in front of the isreal embassy. I hope the uk will be more influnced by this than the us was by Aaron.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/f1TSu
So that Metro doesn’t give you the great choice of “pay us” or “give us your data.”
