I remember after 9/11 when so many Americans were driving around with American flags on their cars (actual flags mounted on flagpoles affixed to the window or roof), and someone pointed out “you know, having that flag on the car makes it less fuel efficient because of the drag it causes, so it wastes gas, and petroleum is the perhaps the primary reason for all our problems in the middle east.”
Sometimes the things we do to make ourselves feel better end up making things worse.
