- Leo Tolstoy
We briefly touched upon this quote during our class discussion regarding patriotism, however, I wanted to bring it up again simply because I agree with this quote.
People should care for every country. If you only care about your country, you do not care about the world, but if you care about the world, you care about every country, including your own. Patriotism requires special affection towards your country, a sense of personal identification for your country, and a special concern for the well being of the country, but what happens if you care for another country as well? Are you also patriotic towards that country? Say you are from America, born and raised, and you also care for England. Are you an English Patriot?
Going off of the same example, if you supported two countries, and both of those countries go to war, who do you support?
Needless to say, Tolstoy was right.
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