Pride is a tricky business.
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There is nothing wrong with being prideful about something, especially when it is being used as a means to normalize it or equalize it with society.
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However, we have to ask ourselves when that pride overstays its welcome. In my opinion, Pride is starting to teeter on that line between necessity and overstaying.
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There's a reason Pride is a vice and one of the seven deadly sins. Nationalism, Excessive Altruism... these two things lead to dangerous circumstances, and both have a form of pride in them (Excessive Altruism is being too prideful to admit that not everyone deserves to be helped or not everyone CAN be helped).
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I don't have to remind people that Germany used to have a very high emphasis on pride.
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Gay Pride can't exactly have the same impact due to sheer self-limitations, but that doesn't mean Pride can't turn into something ugly if it continues long enough.