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Old 03-23-2004, 01:39 AM   #7
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1. Q: in the first place, why you're using this God thing as example?
A: Because, patriotism and god are similar, they are both arbitrary constructs, opinions. I don’t believe in either, so to have it suggested that patriotism is presented as something substitive, as an argument for a construct just as arbitrary (such as burning a flag, or wearing one as a diaper) seems as ludicrous (to me) as asking for a god to side with one half a whole team. Patriotism is asking for one to side with one half of a whole team.

What comes first, your country, or your earth?

In the grand scale of things, flags separate people, far more than they bring them together. To quote Eddy Izzard,

British Soldier: “We stole countries with the cunning use of flags,” “Yeah. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. ‘I claim India for Britain!’
Indian: ‘You can’t claim us—we live here! Five hundred million of us!’
Brittish Soldier: ‘Do you have a flag? No flag, no country.’ ”

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