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humanodon  ·  4210 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If a monk lights himself on fire and nobody watches, has he made a protest?

I guess that's a bit comforting, knowing that the extreme agony doesn't last until the final moment. But man oh man, what a way to go.

Why would you have felt pretentious or like a hipster for responding to the author of the piece in that way?