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Can a person love their country in the manner that those that claim to love their country love it? For the sake of the question any country is relevant.
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March 9, 2012

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Oliver Leaman
March 15, 2012 (changed March 15, 2012) Permalink

I think so. Love is so arbitrary anyway that it is difficult to set limits for it. It might be said that it is ridiculous to claim to love a country since one might have been born a citizen of some other country, but then we do not think it is ridiculous to love a particular person, even though we might not have met that person in which case presumably we would have fallen in love with a different person.

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