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He said it himself – whichever is more advantageous... that's what mercenaries or defectors say...

I, for example, would never betray a friend. You can only betray a friend, a close relative, or someone you care about.
But I can't betray my homeland; it's not possible because I don't feel as close to it as I do to a friend.

You've been offered a choice between a BMW X5 and a Lada 2101.
If you choose the BMW, you're a traitor or a defector.

My mother is not my homeland; rather, my homeland is not my mother. She didn't give birth to me.

Even if we disregard all the lofty feelings, there remains sex, which is fundamentally necessary for an adult.

What does ejaculation have to do with it? Yes, I know that pleasure can be derived without a partner. Perhaps homeless people, foresters, and other sociophobes do just that.
But if, in your opinion, ejaculation is the only reason for needing a partner, then I have bad news for you.

Also, Ghost, you still haven't answered why mercenaries are bad. Do you have no answer?

Really?

Even if we disregard all elevated feelings, sex remains – a basic need for an adult.

Money is needed for survival. The more money, the better you can improve your surroundings. If you don't need it, give it to me.) All of it.
Ghost, it seems to me that you were simply indoctrinated from an early age to love your homeland.
In general, from a very young age, parents and teachers simply hammer their opinions and ideas into everyone's heads. And children get used to it, thinking that this is how it should be, without really understanding why (this is where arguments like "you need to love your homeland because it's your homeland" come from), or even without trying to explain it. They hammer it in, depriving a person of the ability to form their own opinion on any subject, to figure things out on their own. For the past six months, I've been trying to get rid of all this indoctrination (even I used to be a "patriot" and didn't understand why, it just had to be that way, and that's good).
True, I'm on the path to becoming completely inadequate and incomprehensible to others. But that's better, in my opinion; I won't let my parents and teachers control my mind.
Only those who have been heavily indoctrinated are very unlikely to change their opinions, especially after the age of 15.
(I myself don't know how I managed to renounce all of this).

P.S. Also, traditions, customs, and superstitions are also nonsense; nothing will change because of them.
By the way, I've already written somewhere about a society without principles; that's exactly what I meant, without indoctrination, without traditions and superstitions, without stupid principles (like two stubborn donkeys arguing about something just because they are stubborn) and so on.

No one ever forced anything into my head; I came to all these patriotic views on my own.

You misunderstood me (regarding principles). Maybe that specific word isn't quite right, but I think the meaning is clear. And explain why you call it idiocy.

Perhaps I don't deny that everything could have happened exactly as you say, but I still think that it was imposed. You just don't realize it, and most likely will never realize it. But again, I'm not claiming that this is the absolute truth.
Regarding patriotism and fanaticism - I think it's impossible to reach a consensus here. Because I believe that absolute fanaticism is when you are simply crazy about something, you know everything about it, etc. (I'll explain it better with an example: let's say a fan of a band knows the complete biography of all the members of the band, only listens to it, goes to ALL their concerts by any means, squeezing out the last money, is ready to give away an apartment in exchange for a beer can that was run over by the band's limousine, etc.).
IMHO patriotism is a kind of fanaticism in which you "fan out" over the country in which you are a patriot, you also know its history by heart, all the rulers, sub-rulers, etc., and are ready to wallow in mud every day for 23 hours for it, etc.

Principles are principles, not stubbornness... If you are a normal, conscious person with principles, then no one will stubbornly insist on their own rightness, even if they are wrong...

Well, you're a completely reckless maniac!)))

Address: Heresh - Valley of Ghosts.

Other examples: you simply refuse to communicate with a person out of principle; you don't want to, and that's it; you want to do something nice for a person, for example, to thank them, so you give them a box of chocolates, but they refuse; you still give it, and they still refuse. I'm talking about these principles; they can be different. You didn't understand me in that topic, and you still don't understand me now.

How is that possible?!?! You didn't write Russia in the address?!?! You're not a patriot! :D
And you also write in Russian incorrectly! It's disgusting! You should be shot!))