If the death fast is wrong then Martin Luther King Jr. was wrong. If the death fast is wrong then the monks that self immolated inspiring the Kennedys and MLK Jr to levels of consideration and insight and action that they never otherwise would have achieved are wrong. If the death fast is wrong then Malcom X was wrong. If the death fast is wrong then the tens of thousands that marched to what they thought was nears certain death in Tahrir Square were wrong.
If the death fast is wrong, paying the full price of one's life for what one wants, is wrong, then you are wrong. You are wrong because everything of immense value in your life you have paid dearly for, your house, your education, your car, your dearest relationships....
Death fast is nothing more than a concentrated way of paying one's life, and we pay our lives regularly, paying one's life in a concentrated way for something of inestimable value. And if that is wrong then you are wrong. If that is wrong then Jesus of Nazareth is wrong.
If that is right, and you don't, then you are wrong, you are betraying humanity, you are betraying your nieces and nephews, you are betraying seven million Palestinians, you are betraying millions of Palestinian children, you are betraying the United States, and you are betraying all of creation.
And if I flinch, and I have zero inclination of flinching, but if I flinch, then the betrayal is mine. So far the Joy is mine. The joy could be, and must become, yours, too, now.
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