Loyalty to one’s group is not necessarily a virtue, as the horrors of Nazi Germany amply demonstrated. On the contrary, a commitment to group loyalty—a standing order to abandon one’s principles for the sake of the group—is irrational whether one subscribes to moral absolutism or to moral relativism.
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Laurie L. Calhoun is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Advisory Editor of Transition: An International Review.
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