(October 15, 2015 at 8:31 am)Evie Wrote: Pride is the wrong word... it's not wrong to appreciate and respect and treat your country right, of course not. But to be "proud" of it has never made sense to me.
I think you can be proud of things your family did because of the connection there is, like parents are proud of kids when they graduate since parents frequently fund and help kids studying so they become better than previous generations. It makes sense. Pride is a word that rarely fits many things - I could say that there is no free will, and as such we can't be proud of anything because all we achieve is possible only because of where we were born, who helped us and the resources we had. I can be proud of having a law degree, but it doesn't make sense because the only reason I have it is because I managed to pay the tuition (my parents did)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you