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Patriotism

by ccrle

What is the meaning of patriotism? Has it become synonym to blind loyalty? Does it mean letting your morals be defined by your government? Is it turning a blind eye to millions of people starving in another nation because your economy profits on the sale of guns to their oppressors? Is it believing that one's life is more important than others' based on where they were born? Is it being complacent to bombing innocent people one after the other for what their greedy government or a small percentage of extremists did? Is it valuing the life of 10 of your citizen more than a hundred of another country's? Loving your country is normal but inherently feeling morally superior to the rest of the world because you were born within the invisible borders of a country is idiotic.
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Apr 10, 2019
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