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Originally Posted by omk3
Fighting against an invasion is different than joining the army. A fight against an invasion is a fight for your freedom and your human rights, not for your country, though it makes an nice slogan.
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It's a fight for your country. There's certainly other things involved, but it is a fight to preserve your country against the invader.
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And when you say that the nation is the collection of people for a common purpose, what purpose is that exactly? Because being free to make their own choices in life and living peacefully and comfortably in relative harmony with others is what most people basically want out of life, and that's the same all over the world.
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Lots of purposes, like I said it's not possible to answer the questions in this thread - they are the same questions that religion, ethics, philosophy, politics, economics all try to answer in a different way.
But here's somthing... the freedom you're talking about is exactly defined by anarchy, the complete lack of government/council/society/group control. Because as soon as we do something collectively, and at least one person doesn't agree with it then someone's freedom has gone.