Do hunger strikes really work?

[Prufrock]

It's always sounded like an exceptionally stupid protest method.

Gets some props for being non-violent, but the last thing it elicits from me is guilt or sympathy or a desire to get politicians or whomever to do whatever the hunger-strikers want.

 

[Ancalagon]

It's always sounded like an exceptionally stupid protest method.

Gets some props for being non-violent, but the last thing it elicits from me is guilt or sympathy or a desire to get politicians or whomever to do whatever the hunger-strikers want.

It draws attention to your agenda.


Although considering everyone knows you won't be allowed to die, it's kinda BS.


THIS is true self sacrifice. Thich Quang Duc gets major props in my book. Dude must have had balls of steel.

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