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> You're an American (or a Canadian or a Briton or whatever). You are part of a society and part of a nation whether you like it or not. So let's make it work for everyone.

Regardless of which lines one did not to choose to be drawn around them, not everyone has an affinity for them, and if history is any example of such, blood will be drawn for those to fight for their will to reconstruct such lines to their choosing…




>Regardless of which lines one did not to choose to be drawn around them, not everyone has an affinity for them

Yes -- there are always selfish pricks, who think that they should have a say in if they'd have affinity to their family or society or fellow humans.

It's like seeing a child drowning and saying, "well, I don't know this kid or feel anything for this, so why should I do anything to help it?" -- instead of just jumping in just cause it's a fellow human.


Yes -- we can all pick examples at the extremities that may exemplify how one feels and throw names about in order to convince or deride the fellow human being into a lockstep of some sort.

Yet such men (and women), who stand on the pillars of history, who have helped create the social constructs we find ourselves living by to some degree today, were "selfish pricks" to those who apposed them and died in their wake.




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