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Generally speaking a loyal opposition will not advocate (the equivalent of) rebellion or revolution for the latter would endanger the object of loyalty (and perhaps replace it with an alternative object of loyalty).
Does loyalty have any value independent of the particular associational object with which it is connected or is its value bound up exclusively with the object of loyalty?
What that entails is that the opposition stays within bounds that are compatible with the well-being or best interests or flourishing of the object of loyalty.
In any plausible account of loyalty as a virtue there must be openness to corrective criticism on the part of both the subject and object of loyalty.
In such cases it could be argued that the object of loyalty was no longer worthy of it or had forfeited its claim to it.
There may, of course, be some sort of persistence of loyalty despite a recognition that the object of loyalty is no longer worthy of it.
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In such identifications, the fate or well-being of the objects of loyalty become bound up with one's own.
As noted, the primary objects of loyalty tend to be persons, personal collectivities, or quasi-persons such as organizations or social groups.
Football teams and coffee chains, gangs and crime families, may become objects of loyalty no less than professional associations and siblings.
Moreover, once made, such commitments may be forfeited by the objects of loyalty should there be serious failure on their part, or they may be overridden in the face of significantly greater claims.
In response, those who personalize the objects of loyalty point out that we have equally available to us the language of commitment or devotion and, in the case of what is spoken of as "loyalty to one's principles," we have the language of integrity.
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