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2) The danger of Nationalism is an absorption of values: lives of others don't count: Both H & W Bush counted only U.S. soldiers. For Salafis, lives of infidels don't count. For a localist everyone counts, but your obligation to family members is greater.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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