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?

Radu, yes, but both of those are just legal concepts. And I'm asking why those should be part of your identity.

exactly

What is the point of wanting to improve a community but not associating yourself with it? That is hella backwards to me.

But again, if you create an island, people will try to come to it. And when you have to draw lines there, you fuck people all over again,.

The government you pay taxes to and the laws that the police enforces

You don't have to fuck over another one. Historically that is what happens, and it cannot be discussed away that most of Europe's wealth is built on exploitation.