Do the citizens of a nation have a moral obligation to serve their own country ?
I hope not or else I'm morally flawed.
I feel no national "pride" or anything like that. If I lived anywhere else, I'd feel exactly the same way. Countries and states are just masses of land with invisible walls separating things. It's the people who make them different.
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