Irans imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate in critical condition after heart attack - The Tribune

They have a routine of blind folding prisoners, marching them out to an “execution”, aiming empty rifles at them and firing. This has been a psychological torture technique relayed by not just Iranian political prisoners but imprisoned tourists, too. It’s very common. I imagine experiencing that would certainly contribute to a heart attack

Really sad

It's all about system, it's not that people are just egoistic and selfish, people can be also altruistic, but what behavior will be me more popular in society depends on your surroundings. If people hold no power, don't own anything and all power is in hands of elites, then people become selfish, because it's survival tactic, no point in cooperation when you believe that everyone around you is competitive. It's hard to change such system peacefully, because you would have to convince society that cooperation and treating others as equals is better, however it's very hard battle when everything is owned by elites. It's not like after decades of what is basically indoctrination on all fronts (education, media, law, tradition) it's easy to convince anyone. They just don't believe and don't trust that change is possible, because they already have decades of experience living in corrupted world, so why would they believe that alternative is possible? Reforms are possible, but that approach is fragile, because it requires understanding and support of society and it also requires people in power that are pushing good changes for society. That is combination that is hard to achieve in practice, especially when we consider that nothing exists in vacuum and other powers are always meddling in your affairs. Violent solutions don't require that kind of support from society, but they don't solve structural problems, so even if new elites appear, take power by force and they seem better than old ones, eventually everything returns to the starting point, because nothing fundamentally changes, it's still the same society, same hierarchies of power, same centralization of power, status and wealth. That's why revolutions can take down dictatorships, but they don't guarantee better outcomes. Personally I'd argue that even French Revolution had the same issues and that's why humanity is still not free, because instead of having real equality, it was just replacement of elites. They get rid of aristocracy and replaced it with plutocracy. They give us illusion of democracy, while our vote means almost nothing, because society is already influenced by this system to keep status quo. Liberal democracy aka plutocracy is nowhere near as bad as fascism/communism, but it's still oppressive system that keeps us in golden cage, so we don't want to find anything better, because it's at least not that bad. It's reasonable, but still, we can do better as humanity.

Exactly! People need to learn from history that changes happens through violence most of the time. If the ruler don't listen or respect citizens will, it will spark revolutions and revolutions are almost always violent.

They did... but the circle drummed up the soldiers to march.

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