(February 25, 2014 at 8:26 pm)KUSA Wrote:(February 25, 2014 at 7:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Does patriotic = stupid in your view?
No it doesn't but there was a lot of people that felt patriotic for the wrong reasons including myself. I won't do that again. I leave you with this to ponder on.
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Not to mention, there are a lot of people who will use your sense of patriotism for personal gain. I seem to remember Bush spent the first two years after 9/11 calling anyone who disagreed with him a traitor, and he got away with it largely because we lined up in support of him right after the terrorist attacks.
Patriotism is like faith: it isn't bad by itself, but people can use it to get you to do bad things. So blind patriotism, like blind faith, is extremely dangerous.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
