Why not emigrate?
Justin Schwartz
jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 4 08:40:48 PDT 2002
>
>Justin, patriotism becomes effective only with respect to the "other."
>The "other" may be someone from outside die vaterland or someone in it who
>does not go along. It does seem to be implicitly a matter of affection --
>one American life is supposedly worth x times the life of a non-American.
>In short, I think that exclusion is a core element of patriotism.
OK, so whom do I hate? Whose lives are worth less than yours and mine? I
will care less about them hereafter, I promise.
jks
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