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Originally Posted by Akria
Patriotism is merely a more socially acceptable guise of nationalism in which discrimination is in favour of something rather than against other things.
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Wrong. Also all discrimination is both in favour of and against something.
Patriotism is merely rational and purposeful love for your country, emotionally. Intellectually it is to support and actively put into practice principles or ideas in order to bind individuals within a national border - which if I entirely skip the epistemological stages (as I'm sure you'll appreciate!) loosely can translate as improving a nation politically.
By the logical definitions, there are very few patriots. It isn't a desire to conquer by force, or a desire to initiate force against external men; neither is it the willingness to sacrifice another or yourself. It most certainly isn't unquestioning loyalty to a state.