RE: What do foreigners think of America's cult like Patriotism?
March 22, 2018 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2018 at 7:34 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 22, 2018 at 7:29 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote:(March 22, 2018 at 7:26 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: There is everything wrong with loving one's country. One should live what is detachedly assessed to be good about one's country, and hate what is bad. Loving one's country irrespective of the good or bad is infamous.
If a country is good, no patriotism is needed to love it. If it is bad, it is wicked to live it.
Being patriotic and loving your country doesn't mean that you don't realize there are faults with it. It's not equivalent to thinking it is perfect.
I think there is a great deal wrong with loving one's own country more than another imrrely because it is one's own country and regardless of the fact that one's own country does not out perform the other in accruing good characteristics and disposing of the bad one's. It is what makes it acceptable for good many otherwise good man to further the wickedness of one's own country.