Part of the reasoning is technical and structural: while commanders are motivated by discipline and order (as well as, one hopes, respect for the law and concern for and loyalty to all their troops), prosecutors are often looking for cases that they can win.
When we encounter situations that pose similar-looking conflicts between impartial concern and familial loyalties, we have Shun's judgment as a resource and a model.
It is the opposite of the values taught by religions: restraint, concern for others, cooperation and loyalty to the common weal.
The soldiers' stories are an affecting collage of contemporary American life, timeless concerns, and divided loyalties.
Prisoners were asked three questions concerning their religious faith and loyalty to the regime.
They are also concerned about the quality and loyalty of the guards they will get, many of whom will make half what the development organizations pay their Afghan guards now.
Boats aside, the rise of air travel has made it easier to get to Australia and easier to leave, leading to an uptick in temporary migration, and an attendant uptick in concerns about loyalty and security.
The ethical considerations described by child and adolescent psychiatric care staff are multifaceted and remarkably often concern problems of loyalty and organization.
Another ethical issue arising from the strong Confucian emphasis on filial piety concerns possible conflicts between loyalty to parents and loyalty to the ruler or public justice.
"It is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning his loyalty and good disposition towards the United States," they wrote.
