[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Aloofi:

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The world would be a much happier place if people considered their fellow humans to be their brothers instead of just their countrymen. IMHO love of one's nation is a very dangerous thing. It's too easy to use it to generate hatred, and it's ridiculous when you consider the arbitrary nature of nationality anyway (I love my country and hate yours because I happened to be born here.)

Oh, come on Dogscoff, you know that loving your country doesn't mean hating somebody elses countries.
And you also know that universal brotherly love is an utopia at the moment, because you can't love who hate you. At best you may not hate them back, but you can't love somebody that wants to kill your family and destroy your way of life.
Besides, I don't see an unbridgable gap between national love and international love.
People that profit from our divisions promote the idea of international brothehood as opouse to national brotherhood because they know that international brotherhood is impossible, and at the same time they take away from us our national brotherhood.

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So, are there not one on the other side who doesn't want to kill you and your family?
I don't think it's all that black and white, but then I'm not in the middle of it.
Why hate an entire people (Nation or psudonation) when there are some there who want's to kill you but some who don't, why not try to differentiate?