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  • A national identity based on common positive beliefs helps to keep these beliefs viable. Leaving group identity to the right is one of the reasons why it is so strong

    I can be proud that my country has free health care and still critize that the rich get better treatment

    I can be proud that my country has made it clear in its constitution that every life style and religion are the same before the state while critzing that the reality dies not adhere to this ideal

    While identity is differential to other groups it does not need to be excluding. I.e. everybody who shares our ideals is welcome here instead of people born here are superior to others

    And you can have the identity not be in difference to an other people but e.g. another time. I am proud that germany is harder for the nazis to take over than the Weimar Republic was.

    People want identity and a feeling of community and seeing that as something inherently negative os stupid and dangerously helpful to the right


  • Depends on the philosophy you believe in.

    Deonthology states that some actions are allways morally wrong if they hurt the rights of a person

    Ulitarism states that actions are morally right if they have a combined net positive on all the affected people.

    In the first, specific needs of one can’t be broken no matter how many would profit.

    (Thonk rorschach vs ozymandius in watchman “killing millions to save billions”)

    Realistically nobody completely has one of these systems but rather it is about finding where you lie between them.

    If you say you would not even tell a single lie if that would guarantee world peace:
    that would be a 100% deonthology

    If you say you would torture innocents, if enough other people’s lives would improve:
    that would be 100% Ulitarism

    The basis of the trolly problem is exactly this: what horrific act would and wouldn’t you do as long as there is a positive outcome