>>No one is justifying self-immolation.<<
Yes you are. You are just pissed off I nailed you on your support of this as a “protest” from “the gummint.”
If this was a “cat lady” who had 96 cats and when the government moved in to help her (a ‘la Horders) she decided to torch herself and all said cats you would say “she was not all there.”
Methinks the EV and his ilk doth protest too much.
I think you’re the nutjob.
He just had chickens, legally & properly & reasonably. Then the city tried to stop him, the city went berserk when he said “no”, and drove him to suicide. Did you read the detailed post above?