Reply To: Why force feed?

Yekke2: Strangulation is doing something to him, which makes him unable to breathe, and hence dead. That’s very different from withholding his oxygen supply.

NE:

The question was why should Israel force feed them,

What is with your fixation on Israel? Where in the opening post does it say Israel?

If you’re wondering why people are so taken by hunger strikes, it is simply because if somebody is dying, passively, for a cause, people automatically take more attention in that cause, and/or feel that cause obviously is worth dying for, and is as such nobler, in some twisted way. We are not talking of rationality here, as PR never is, but of human psychology, particularly group psychology.

In all three of your posts, this the first time you wrote this. And it still begs wonder why intelligent people give in to perceptions of crazies instead of clearly and coherently stating their position, and pointing out that someone refusing to eat isn’t their fault. (As far as Israel is concerned, perhaps this isn’t so surprising; Israel rarely wins a common-sense debate. However, with other countries who don’t start off guilty until proven innocent, and also aren’t used to making a decision contrary to all reason, just for good PR, it’s astonishing that they get scared of a hunger strike.) Also, note that you say “that cause obviously is worth dying for” when in reality they’re not dying for the cause but rather trying to scare their wardens into freeing them from jail.

you have attempted above to poiont out inconsistencies in my reasoning that did not exist, but were simply due to you obviously not …even fully read my above posts.

Would you stop saying that already. I read all the posts fully.

Joseph: Who said anyone halachicly distinguishes between the two?