Originally Posted by
brownprose
I think that cannot happen. For always, the anticipation of incentive drives every human action to take place -- be that action is as trivial as cleaning up your dog's crap or as grand as dying for a lost cause. In other words, "self-sacrifice" is no less different from any other form of human action -- they are all driven by motive or incentive. What sets self-sacrifice apart from other human actions is the difficulty of doing it or the rarity of such event in which people tend to hype it as something noble or worthy of a posthumous recognition in which in essence is no different from suicide in form and substance.
Perhaps the best way to trivialize or negate the hype in self-sacrifice is to take it as "glorified suicide."
"The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage."
i forgot who said it, Palahniuk rin ata.hehe