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Statesman, the new Patriot badge description just doesn't make sense.
Sure, the heroine may be a "citizen" of every country in the world, but patriotism doesn't have a whole lot to do with
citizenship in a country; it has to do with allegiance to that one country and its set of values,
over all others. I have little doubt, for instance, that there are currently citizens of the United States who don't feel particularly patriotic (in the strictest dictionary sense, not the politically-charged election slur sense) toward it. By its very definition, that means that the badge as it currently stands has nothing whatsoever to do with "patriotism."
I'll grant it's possible to be patriotic to more than one country if their values are particularly closely aligned, especially if you hold dual citizenship. But to be "patriotic" toward
all countries on earth at the same time? Including the ones that are currently at war with each other, or are guilty of human rights violations (at the same time as the ones trying to
stop those violations)? That truly is a superheroic feat...of schizophrenia.
You tried to make the badge all-inclusive, but that goes counter to the very idea of patriotism. What you should have done, and what you should do now, is go in another direction: make the badge
generic. Just as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is meant to represent
all the soldiers in a particular war, make a memorial to
all patriotic heroes, of whatever country. Either make the hero someone who died to save her own country--and
don't say what country it was, so that everyone who gets the badge can feel sure that it was for
his or her own country--or else make it generically symbolic of every hero who's ever fought for his own country. That way, at least, the badge would make some sense yet still be suitably all-inclusive.
Just my opinion.
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Intelligent post, I like it. I just want to say, it is possible that this heroine is being considered a patriot of Earth. Which makes things unfair for our demonic/angelic/alien heroes, I know....but you're playing a game made in Earth, set on Earth, produced by Earthicans, I don't know what to tell you! Geez
