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nothing... im much more able to help a cause im passionate about if im still alive.
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i think most people on here openly say who and what they'd die for but if it would ever come down to the actual situation, they wouldn't do it. people are just openly self satisfying and try their hardest not to sound selfish. what you're asking is a very hard question to ask and most people could not answer it truthfully unless actually put into that situation.
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This might sound selfish, but I don't think I could throw my life away for a cause or a person when I'm not ready to die. I have something to accomplish and I will not be able to die with satisfaction if I do not do what I was put on this Earth to do.
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Anything that severely limits my own personal interests to an intolerable level. Pretty much if I can't be an intolerable self interested as*hole then I might as well go down fighting.
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If I were in a situation in which I was attempting to rescue an animal, I think that I'd be okay with risking my life to do so. And if it was the kind of situation that resulted in my death, then at least I could move on to the next world knowing that I did some good for somebody else.
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There is one person I would die for. Maybe if the world was going to end unless one person sacrificed themselves, or any similar scenario.
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no but there are people i would happily lay my life down for because people are tangible and ideas are abstracts open to bad interpretation, and as history as shown with every noble cause, lead to senseless violence and we really don't need anymore of that.
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Wow, that's a difficult question. I would like to think I would die to protect a child.
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Ending the femicide in Mexico.
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Ending the femicide in Mexico.
Very recently I found out about the maquiladora murders, reading articles in my Women in Latin America class, also reading the thriller Desert Blood, watching Maquilapolis, and other documentaries, and I was disgusted. Women are being raped, killed and their genitalia and breasts are being cut off for trophies: Women are being killed for sport.
It started in the 90s and it's still going on today. And if these women don't get raped or killed they are dying from the harsh environments, pollutants, and lead poisoning that these factories don't control. Some of these factories are big names like Sony and Panasonic. They are all United States factories that went into Mexico for cheap labor. These women make $60 a week, to work full time jobs, poisoning, and risk death.
It's such a delicate subject, I wouldn't even know how to approach fixing this problem. But if I figured it out, and it meant putting my life in danger for other women. I would do so, willingly.
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I would die for a stranger, but you can stuff all your causes up your arses, all of you.
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I am a warrior at heart. I know this because I have been relatively unaffected by the scenes of war, that I have witnessed while operating over seas, while I have seen some loose themselves mentally, seeking drugs, and suicide, as a means to an end. There is a familiarity to war in me, that I can’t really put my finger on. I have been a fighter for most of my life, and I have won many, and lost few. It’s something that comes very natural to me. I have no fear of death, when it is dieing for something you love, and I would gladly die, protecting my home land, and loved ones, from monsters that would seek to pervert our way of life. But thing is, I don’t agree with our way of life, and even after seeing their war with my own eyes, I am not convinced the enemy, is who they say it is…
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I live in the UK. I don't think there are many 'causes' that could put this question to the test.
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I live in the UK. I don't think there are many 'causes' that could put this question to the test.
Philosophically there are probably no causes worth dying for - because this inhibits your ability to further that cause over a lifetime, unless you deem that your death will further the cause than anything that you do in your life. This is a little pessimistic though.
This question did remind me of the image of Thich Quang Duc, the vietanamese monk who burned himself alive to protest the persecution of buddhists by the government. I think this raises a lot of questions about matyrdom.
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Maybe a better question would be, "If a really good cause came before you, would you be willing to die for it?".
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Maybe a better question would be, "If a really good cause came before you, would you be willing to die for it?".
I think it's perhaps less about the cause and more about your own spiritual stability in whether you could see your life as forfeit for the sake of something you truly believed in. Anyone can fancy themselves an armchair martyr in this case or for that scenario. But in the end it would come down to whether you were/are in that/this moment, to lay down your life as a sacrifice for others.
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You won't catch me saying "FREEEEEDOMMMM!"
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You won't catch me saying "FREEEEEDOMMMM!"
because that possibility would only require me to act - not die...
those who think they die for that cause (soldiers) have generally been duped -
(since 1945 anyway)
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This is a really good question. It reminds me a lot of the civil rights years and how so many risked their lives in protests, freedom rides, etc. So many heroes were risking their lives to change the world. But as for myself, I would die to protect my loved ones and my freedom.
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The real question is, is there a cause you would actually live for? If not, your dead just the same.
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I don't know. Sounds like a pretty big decision to have made up ahead of time. I figure if something is important enough to you that you are willing to die for it, you probably wouldn't realize it until it comes time to make the sacrifice. Until that point I suppose saying you would die for something or another is just a bunch of hot air.
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A cause is a pretty tricky thing to define. What exactly were kamikaze pilots being told that their deaths would accomplish that hasn't been accomplished although Japan was forced to surrender?
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