No offense, but if push came to shove I would ignore you and go and save the other Greeks. Nothing that you say or do can change this.
Well, no, actually this is not how I feel.
Not something I would take offence at even if you did feel that way. But just to avoid falling into straw man territory later, let me just note that by the time I'm actually in a practical position to save someone's life, they're already going to have more in common with me than just being on the planet just by virtue of being in the same place at the same time, and I wouldn't decide who to save based on nationality. I don't know if I'd be capable of rational thought at all in such a situation, but if I were and didn't have specific commitments to one of the individuals involved, I hope I'd help the person who appeared to me to be in most need out of those I had the actual capacity to help.
I am trying to point out the problem with choosing a side based on something like geography.
Yes, and I agree with you up to a point, but then patriotism isn't really about geography to me, nor is it about the basis on which I make decisions like the above.
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Date: 2003-03-26 06:19 am (UTC)Well, no, actually this is not how I feel.
Not something I would take offence at even if you did feel that way. But just to avoid falling into straw man territory later, let me just note that by the time I'm actually in a practical position to save someone's life, they're already going to have more in common with me than just being on the planet just by virtue of being in the same place at the same time, and I wouldn't decide who to save based on nationality. I don't know if I'd be capable of rational thought at all in such a situation, but if I were and didn't have specific commitments to one of the individuals involved, I hope I'd help the person who appeared to me to be in most need out of those I had the actual capacity to help.
I am trying to point out the problem with choosing a side based on something like geography.
Yes, and I agree with you up to a point, but then patriotism isn't really about geography to me, nor is it about the basis on which I make decisions like the above.