You can love your life, society, its norms and the freedoms they afford you. But the claims about the intrinsic goodness of your system, without a shared basis of evaluation between that to which you aim to compare it (under its own criteria), make them epistemic-ally thin as a viking screaming of his love for Valhalla. And while I think it is that vikings right to live and die for Valhalla, if that way is threatened, that love does not bubble up to something as equivalent to an excuse for external imposition of the viking way.
Ironically, this does more to justify colonialism than it does to defeat it. By your logic, if a modern military force were somehow transported back to the 1600s, they would have no moral basis to prevent European settlers from colonizing North America. For these settlers, the act of settlement was as much driven by morality, by a religious need to go forth and multiply and spread the light of God, as it was by rational calculation of material needs.
So I ask you, by what right would you stop these settlers from going forth and bringing the light of the Lord to the heathen darkness?
Ironically, this does more to justify colonialism than it does to defeat it. By your logic, if a modern military force were somehow transported back to the 1600s, they would have no moral basis to prevent European settlers from colonizing North America. For these settlers, the act of settlement was as much driven by morality, by a religious need to go forth and multiply and spread the light of God, as it was by rational calculation of material needs.
So I ask you, by what right would you stop these settlers from going forth and bringing the light of the Lord to the heathen darkness?