• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    It could be the best for you.

    You seem to be implying all people and countries are on a scale moving closer to some single ideal.

    But it’s perfectly valid to think your house is the best and want it to be different to someone else’s house, who also thinks their house is the best.

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      4 months ago

      You seem to be implying all people and countries are on a scale moving closer to some single ideal.

      I mean that’s definitely how some people interpret it but at least for me, patriotism encompasses the idea that my country should be best for me and the people in it but that other people in other countries get to think the same thing about their country and work towards their own version of “best.”

      But I’m not gonna argue that everyone does patriotism this way because that’s clearly not the case 🙃 plenty of “patriots” out there willing to wreck their own country in a war over bringing their own ideals to a different place.