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@noaht2 the bad ending 😔

@MaePole resolves ‘Yes’

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/09/12/man-sets-himself-on-fire-in-downtown-boston-police-say/amp/

How will this market resolve if the “self-immolated” person does not die?

Here is the Merriam-Webster definition of self-immolation: “a deliberate and willing sacrifice of oneself often by fire”.

English-language Wikipedia’s short description of the practice is “Ritualistic and political suicide method”, while the first sentence of the article says it is “the act of setting oneself on fire”.

I should’ve asked this before staking out a huge NO position lol

@imtryingmybest both Claude and ChatGPT say it still counts when I try to ask in an unbiased way"

Does a person count as having self-immolated if they survive having set themself on fire?

Yesterday in front of the Israeli consulate in Boston

https://twitter.com/mqudsi/status/1834422114373239166

@mqudsi I'll need a better source than this. I will look at this today.

@MaePole he uploaded a video before doing it

@mqudsi still hard to connect the two events to each other, right?

@MaePole https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/man-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-four-seasons-hotel-in-boston/3486157/

Wow, people invent ever new ways to acting crazy

@Schwabilismus not a really new thing List of political self-immolations - Wikipedia

@TiredCliche yeah, but most of the entries are from east Asia and the pacifics. Didn't know that this was making a revival in the west.