Yang says that in today's society a hunger strike is not an effective way of realizing the goal of a plebiscite law. Besides, the incorporation of a plebiscite law into the constitution is not thought to be a necessary condition of basic justice. But once the hunger strikers began their fast, the demand was made sacrosanct and tied to the questions of national independence and resisting the Chinese communists.
他指出，以絕食來推動公投立法的理想，在現下的社會其實不具實質影響力；其次，公投入憲並未被視為最基本的正義要件，而且絕食的手段一祭出來，就是把公投神聖化了，隨之讓公投目的鎖定在國家獨立、對抗中共上。