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A great analogy. I love my family because they are my family, and I love my country because it is my country. That doesn't mean I should think that either is ob
by nathan_long 13y ago
A great analogy. I love my family because they are my family, and I love my country because it is my country. That doesn't mean I should think that either is objectively the best, or turn a blind eye to their faults, or treat others unfairly to favor them.
I love my family and country because they are mine, they helped make me, and my memories are with them. Which helps me understand why Brits and Egyptians and Chinese, etc, love theirs.
I think good patriotism makes us sympathetic to outsiders rather than the opposite.
- pessimizer 13y agoI feel the opposite way. I love my mother because she's objectively ranks as nearly the best mother I could have had, and I love my siblings and aunts, grandparents and great-grandparents because they are objectively the best looking, most intelligent, and most dependable people I could have had in my life. It's the same way I feel about my friends, who frequently remind me that I'm one of the luckiest people in the world. I've see what other people have to work with, and there have been many exceptions amongst my own family and friends, but as individuals, they are simply better than most other people. I couldn't care less about blood or soil.
- Domenic_S 13y ago> I love my mother because she's objectively ranks as nearly the best mother I could have had "Objective" and "parenting". That's cute.
- Demiurge 13y agoI agree on all this :)