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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I understood what you said, Cynthetiq. Explaining it to me further hasn't handled my disgust.
Neither Gandhi nor King "voluntarily suffered death", by the way. They were both assassinated. Just so you've got your history straight. MASSIVE difference between killing for your values and being killed for them.
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I don't disagree that there is a massive difference in the values.
Voluntarily suffered death... I guess you didn't continue with the rest of the definition which ends with the word "religion."
They were assasinated for their beliefs, I don't disput that, but "a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle" is befitting of their death. People have spoken that MLK was a martyr for the cause of civil rights. Ghandi, not that I've read. But if Tank Man was killed, he may very well be a martyr for the cause and freedoms of the Chinese people.
Benigno Aquino is considered a martyr to the Filipinos and probably the lynchpin to the downfall of the Marcos regime.
I'm not trying to make inflammatory comparisions here, I'm just stating like it or not the defintions as they are cut both ways, massive difference notwithstanding.
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