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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

There's a very rational reason for caring about one's own home, and that's the fact that you live there.

As opposed to your country, where you clearly don't live?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The point is that there are motivations to improve one's country that don't come with all the baggage nationalism comes with (namely the fact that members of a nebulously defined "nation" are implicitly or explicitly elevated above all others).

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