Honnasiri's Catch

Nationalism is irrationalizable, undebatable and sacred even if lacking at times. It's a whole religion by itself. Unlike working up to it, with reasons why it must exist, it is blindly assumed and then dictates how you behave towards it. See, I get it. This is nationalism - nation, people, country, culture, roots and those who protect it and ensure it stays intact. There's a sort of a natal attachment to it which even the most reasoning naysayers can't deny. But, can it really allowed to flourish, as freely as it does? Are all the ideas it entails paying the right homage, even if not reasonable or completely open-eyed, to the core concept? When you're trying to explain something for better clarity, it's normal to take an example outside of the argument's purview to make your point, it being a comparison. Sometimes you hit a roadblock when someone tells you that"'it's not like that. You won't understand", which defeats the whol