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Would you fight for your home town?

Lark

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I'm watching the final episodes of the first season of Jericho and the citizens of the town, which exists in a world after nuclear explosions have plunged the US into an apocalyptic localism which not much in the way of law or peace, have been attacked by a neighbouring town.

They are rallying to the towns defence. My question is would you do this? I dont know that I would, if I could look after my immediate family's safety in some way other than defending to town I dont think I would.

It could be me and just not liking the town I've grown up in and issues unique to this part of the world like sectarianism and social class composition but I wonder if this is widespread. Is the US different?
 

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I would fight for the sake of fight.
 

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I'm not american, but I would not fight for my *home*town. However, I would sure as hell fight for my new one! It is definitely worth defending.
 

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I would if my family, friends, and I were invested in the local community and sought to stay there for a length of time and were happy with the way things were run (moreso than whomever the invading town was).
 

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I wouldn't need to: the SAS is based a couple of miles away.

The risk is, though, that if something that threatens your hometown happens... Then the SAS will probably already be dead along with the rest of most of the armed forces.
Because if something threatens the whole of a town, it probably threatens the country as a whole. Whether it's an insurrection or an invasion.
 

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The risk is, though, that if something that threatens your hometown happens... Then the SAS will probably already be dead along with the rest of most of the armed forces.
Because if something threatens the whole of a town, it probably threatens the country as a whole. Whether it's an insurrection or an invasion.

SAS...dead? Surely you jest.
 

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I'd fight for my own survival, and if survival means the need for numbers, then fighting for a town seems like a good option.
 

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I'm more inclined to fight against something that for something, I wonder if anyone else is like that?
 

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I'm more inclined to fight against something than for something, I wonder if anyone else is like that?

That sentence is funny.To be fighting against something, means fighting for the opposite. ;)

But I understand what you mean. And in that sense, I agree, I too find myself going against the grain more often than not.
 

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That sentence is funny.To be fighting against something, means fighting for the opposite. ;)

But I understand what you mean. And in that sense, I agree, I too find myself going against the grain more often than not.

No, I think its sometimes possible to resist something without having a will or need to replace it with an alternative, you know?

You could be fighting aggression without any goal other that resisting aggression, I know that some people would want to be positively campaigning somehow in a fight like that, so they'll be fighting a particular sort of aggression, ie capitalist, socialist, nationalist, religious aggression, and see themselves as a fighter for socialism, capitalism, internationalism, secularism, but I dont think I need that so much.
 

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I am the champion-knight-defender-hard-ass of bubblegum, rainbows and bunnies!
 

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my hometown? nah. oakland, maybe just because that would be one badass war.
 

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No, not the town I live in currently. I would go to ground, if I could. Fact is I'd probably be cooped up in the hospital, doing my bit for the wounded. A bit of sucker like that. Plus I could contribute more with my skills in that way, than I could picking up a weapon. Not that I have issues with that.
 

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I'm watching the final episodes of the first season of Jericho and the citizens of the town, which exists in a world after nuclear explosions have plunged the US into an apocalyptic localism which not much in the way of law or peace, have been attacked by a neighbouring town.

They are rallying to the towns defence. My question is would you do this? I dont know that I would, if I could look after my immediate family's safety in some way other than defending to town I dont think I would.

It could be me and just not liking the town I've grown up in and issues unique to this part of the world like sectarianism and social class composition but I wonder if this is widespread. Is the US different?

Never watched Jericho but I've watched another show that was similar and I think that in that kind of situation it may be good move to participate in the defense of a town, although I wouldn't feel any sense of patriotism or compulsion, really depends on which option is going to most beneficial to me. If the next town over decided to attack my hometown today? No... that's nuts.
 

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Not really, although I'd fight for my home-nation.
 
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