“It's boring and immature, like when someone says he wants to watch the world burn. You only get to watch when you have the privilege of not being on fire. It's edgy but it's not the darkness. The darkness is finding a way to laugh about being on fire.”
Source: The Darkness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM, published 2019-03-02<br>ContraPoints
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