You ask "Why do we feel so patriotic"?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by Gibsie
And I also fail to see why this is a good reason for US patriotism: unless the US is the only country on the planet which has such great people in it. Explain further..?

What, and you wouldn't feel that your country is great and your people are great when your people try to save total strangers, people they don't know? When they think not of themselves and sacrifice their lives trying to preserve others?

If you don't think that is a great thing, an honorable thing, a patriotic thing, then you are a MORON, and I will not give you any respect. Period.

[Alexander's Horse]

No country has a monopoly on heroism.

[KrazyHorse]

You God damn mind reader How did you quote me if you posted 1 minute before me?


I knew I was right about the Conspiracy.....hah! My foil hat will deflect your telepathy

No I must take my findings public

Somebody's been drinking...

[mactbone]

Have to love the love! Those officers were extremely brave, I'm glad we have people like that in those positions.
Too bad these individuals couldn't make it out

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
No country has a monopoly on heroism.

We should! Damn those anti-trust laws .

[faded glory]

forget it......your right. i swore you pos.....never mind. post deleted!

(but im watching you)

[KrazyHorse]

If you don't think that is a great thing, an honorable thing, a patriotic thing, then you are a MORON, and I will not give you any respect. Period

How many two-fours did you say you and faded have finished off now?

[Gibsie]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
What, and you wouldn't feel that your country is great and your people are great when your people try to save total strangers, people they don't know? When they think not of themselves and sacrifice their lives trying to preserve others?

If you don't think that is a great thing, an honorable thing, a patriotic thing, then you are a MORON, and I will not give you any respect. Period.

These people were great- you must have missed the two sentences of my post where I said this. But selflessness is not necessarily an American trait, so why should you celebrate America because of their actions?!

And anyway, if we should celebrate America because of great people like that, then we should equally despise it because of people like you.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
What, and you wouldn't feel that your country is great and your people are great when your people try to save total strangers, people they don't know? When they think not of themselves and sacrifice their lives trying to preserve others?

Every country does that you silly cow. It's what countries do

So keep you pants on

[Pembleton]

I'm an American and what those men did would make me want to celebrate what humanity is capable of, not Americans.

[mactbone]

Is America the only country in the world that likes to point out individuals in it's country that have done good things, and try to be like them? By the same token, shouldn't we as Americans, point out the people from here that hasve done good, and say, here, these people are what make America great, if it weren't for them, we wouldn't live in such a great place.

Oh, wait, we're putting the individual above the collective, my bad

[Goingonit]

if patriotism is being proud of heroes like those, we need more patriots.

If patriotism is being proud of your country when it does bad things, we need less

What is it? Depends on the patriots. Americans are hopefully (and I think probably) more of the first kind.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

We celebrate them because we've never been faced with this before. What ticks me off is when we're patriotic just so that we can wave our flag and say that we're better. That's not why I do it. I do it because I see that my fellow man will help if my life is in danger. It just happens to focus on the U.S. because it was an attack on the U.S.

[Pembleton]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
We celebrate them because we've never been faced with this before.

Um, they were police officers. They do it all the time, and have done it before. People just didn't notice because it didn't happen during such a notable event.

[Roland]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
What ticks me off is when we're patriotic just so that we can wave our flag and say that we're better.

But it comes across as: Those are heroes because they are Americans. Why else would you be nationally proud about it ? Included that officers in other countries are less worth.

You may not mean it that way, but the connection between officers who risk or give their life to save others and nationalism is just insane.