• fodor@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    I think he was aware of the kind of linguistic argument you just made. Your positive view inevitability leads to the negative one. You love your country at the expense of others, right? Otherwise you would have been talking about loving the global community. Well, how do you justify supporting your country but not others? Discrimination. That’s how. So patriotism leads to nationalism. Not for everyone all the time, but still for real numbers of people, 100% guaranteed to occur.

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      4 days ago

      Just to expand on your point:

      Love of one’s country; devotion to the welfare of one’s compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one’s country.

      One of these things is not like the others. And it’s the essence of the feeling, sadly. The other stuff is just being a decent person.