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> nationalism Nationalism isn’t inherently immoral. Nationalism is the belief that people with a shared history, culture, language, or identity, ought to have
by andsoitis 11mo ago
> nationalism
Nationalism isn’t inherently immoral. Nationalism is the belief that people with a shared history, culture, language, or identity, ought to have political self-determination and a special loyalty to their own nation.
Where nationalism can go wrong is when it becomes exclusionary (eg defines nation as ethnic, racial, or religious), when it claims moral superiority, suppresses internal dissent, escalates into zero-sum thinking (success defined in terms of other nations losing).
- archagon 11mo agoIn my experience, even the benign kind of nationalism inevitably metastasizes.
- insane_dreamer 11mo agoit's not inherently immoral but it's inherently dangerous because it can be so easily weaponized almost all wars are fueled by nationalism
- andsoitis 11mo ago> almost all wars are fueled by nationalism Many wars, especially modern ones, are fueled in part by nationalism, but almost none are caused by nationalism alone or mostly caused by nationalism alone. Instead, they're driven primarily by other factos: power & security, economic interests, religion or ideology, contorl and authority. Nationalism is often a tool rather than the root cause.
- insane_dreamer 11mo agoI didn't say "caused". I said "fueled".