Philosophical questions: Is unconditional loyalty to a cause a positive or negative trait?

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4. I cannot betray my basic belief system to win approval from a clan.

As an example, I believe that all people should be equal under the law, and no amount of pressure will force me to change that belief.

I believe in ethical behavior, equity, morality, and human decency toward people and animals.

I believe that crimes proven in a court of law should have just punishment, not unjust punishment based on skin color. I believe that violence should have role in a civilized society.

I believe in education and its effect in helping us learn how to gain knowledge and assess it for truth and its relevance to our lives. Those are basic beliefs that I could not change.

When it comes to happenings in the world, I believe in gaining knowledge rather than just accepting one perspective as the only one that matters. It’s easy to take one action out of the context of an entire story and draw conclusions that simply lead to group think instead of exploring the facts. As an example, it is fact that over 30% of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was stolen. That is easily proven to be untrue, but the power of one narrative repeated many times leads to minds closed to the truth.