Are martyrs actually selfish auto-addicts?

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Thank you Minyatur I see in what sense the question would address something else than simply the concept of giving oneself to save someone else. It is just that it might happen to be the case once in a while. Unless we consider the ISIS mode of functioning in the way they recruit young people. Perhaps the title might have been then, could in certain cases martyrs be self-inflicted torture, or something in that way ?

I have to say I never considered that when I was visiting the thread, and I understand Jade's point of view, I was not seeing the thread as you just pointed.