[quote=@Raijinslayer]
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That, I mu8st say, is the Pride one has in their state and the inability to here anything bad about it. Whether that's good, bad, true, or false is irrelavent to the fact that you talked bad about the state we live in, and the gut reaction to that is to defend it. 
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Then that Pride is direly in need of some humbling. Everyone and everything is flawed in some way, if you're so monstrously prideful about something as inconsequential as your state that it is your proverbial social Achilles Heel; then that's just downright sad.