>How unpatriotic is that? Deserters!
Yeah! Nationalism! Everyone should put the interests of a blob of land delineated by imaginary lines above their own!
Can we stick to arguments not based on nationalist fervor?
Yeah! Nationalism! Everyone should put the interests of a blob of land delineated by imaginary lines above their own!
Can we stick to arguments not based on nationalist fervor?
The water wasn't created by the government, the government didn't build the pipes carrying it to my house, and any first world country could have helped to facilitate this glass of water just as much as the country I happen to inhabit.
>using a protocol developed with national funding
Along with contributions from Xerox, BBN, UCL, a number of US universities... And why, exactly, does the fact that a government partially funded a nice project mean that nationalism is a good motive?
No, this is precisely what you are doing. I mentioned that we should not make arguments based on nationalism, and you responded.
>...he says while sipping a glass of nationally funded water, on his computer which arrived via nationally funded sea ports, which sends data over nationally funded computer networks, using a protocol developed with national funding.
which, as you just mentioned, has to do with government, not nationalism.
It's not nationalism to malign those who benefit from the collective tax paying body without contributing to it.
We can, perhaps. The POTUS generally has a harder time winning arguments by doing so.