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That level of detachment is only affordable to you because of the generations of people that fought, murdered and died for the nations on which you now can so c
by zarkov99 5y ago
That level of detachment is only affordable to you because of the generations of people that fought, murdered and died for the nations on which you now can so comfortably live. Perhaps you think that work is done. Maybe you are right, at this moment, but if history is any guide, it could all change in an instant and you could need people who are willing to fight for your way of live.
- fourthwaveska 5y agoI don't owe those people who came before me anything. They did what they did of their own volition, I had zero say in the matter. My mother could easily have been in Russia, Crete or Antarctica when I crawled out of her birth canal. The concept of patriotism and nationalism is purely ridiculous to me. Patriotism is the erroneous belief that you are special because of what side of a line your mother was on when you were born. I think maybe it makes more sense if you believe in god or some other superstition. People live, people die, the world goes on, that's it.