I mean, that's usually how things go on the grand scale. Sure you can improve your local community in many ways, but if it's about wealth and prosperity, it will have a component of exploitation. It cannot work in any other way.

I hope I got your statement right without any confusion or misinterpretation. In the shoutbox, things go by so fast that it’s easy to miss the point or mistakenly reply to something or someone else :)

corrupt, you do realize that people can have several interests in mind? Just because you like your community/country/culture/people doesn't mean that's everything that matters to you. You can care about a country, a family, a ...

@corrupt, I completely agree with you on that. I just thought it was important to challenge the idea that improving one’s home country necessarily has negative consequences for the rest of the world.

Metren, again, you can do that without associating with your country. The country is around you anyway, that's neither your fault nor your achievement. Obviously you want to change it. But why try to BE it?

Well the question is why the community is connected to a country to you. The whole world is a community. And in my book that's the only one that counts.

What if public criticism causes the government to reverse its policy of sending young (or any) people into illegal and meaningless foreign wars? Does this not have a positive impact on both the world and the country in question?