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Originally Posted by Socks
Clear to us, but to someone stricken with a mountain of grief (and from another culture we don't fully understand) he may have done it there so that other people with grief could have someone to blame, somewhere to focus their anger on, etc. Sort of like a "don't hurt them, take me instead" hostage type scenario.
Probably wrong, but maybe in his head something like that was going on by "taking responsibility". Or maybe it was a way of him feeling disgraceful and disgracing himself further by doing it in this way, because that's what he felt he deserved.
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Sure, I'm trying to put myself in his shoes, nevertheless, if hari kari is beneficial here, that's fine, but do you think public hari kari, for lack of a better term, in front of survivor children and families helps survivors?
I'm with your other view, I think it was a selfish act on his part based on his personal disgrace, and he simply used the crowd as a means to his own end.