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I’ve never understood the point of a hunger strike. Do what i want or I’ll kill myself just doesn’t seem like a great negotiating tactic.
I guess the hope is that it will be considered martyrdom and inspire the people to rise up?
I don’t know if that really works most of the time though.
I think the concept is that other people are innately empathetic. Doesn’t really work these days, not sure if it ever did.
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I’m AwakeSoulist/Buddhist.
There are 2 sides to this that seem pertinent:
As a means of protest it is valid to do-so.
As a means of manipulating others into obeying one’s social-pressure … it absolutely is not.
I’m an independent “charnel-ground dweller” style buddhist, though, so no tradition holds that I’m valid, in any way, whatsoever.
You consider it, & you make up your own mind.
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