McGentrix wrote:I didn't want to have a grey area because I knew it would just confuse you more.
When it comes to confusion,
McG, I am the victim, you are the carrier.
McGentrix wrote:You were hung up on the word "good" and the need for an objective standard. I do not think we could agree on one for good, but I felt we could agree that there was an objective standard for evil. So, in the black and white world of good and evil, what is not evil must be good, thus we can create a standard for good - That which is not evil.
It's not necessary to come up with an objective standard of "good;" it is only necessary to come up with an objective standard of patriotism. You have implied, however, that patriotism is always "good" in an objective sense, so it is up to you either to come up with a standard of "good" by which to measure patriotism or else come up with an objective standard of patriotism that eschews any notion of "goodness."
McGentrix wrote:I'm sorry you were not able to seperate that from the rest of my response. I'm not surprised that you failed to see the logic, as you probably read it as all one response.
Framing it all as one response undoubtedly led me to read it all as one response. How careless of me. Next time, when you want to split up your responses into discreet logical packets, you should indicate the divisions with some kind of marker, such as a series of asterisks
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