"If your boss asks for loyalty, offer integrity, if your boss asks for integrity, offer loyalty" -- Boyd.
Tribalists are often genuinely unable to distinguish between loyalty tests and integrity tests. Why?...
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I suspect it's because of overloading of strongly ingrained kinship+survival instincts. The scene in The Godfather where Sonny is admonished "never go against the family" for a transgression that later proves costly is an example.
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Purity tests are an interesting hybrid of loyalty test (do you meet the expectations of a personal bond of trust?) and integrity test (do you stay on doctrine?) to meet the needs of looser, more impersonal institutions
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Seeing this while listening to an interview with Sebastian Junger...
I don't know the answer, but I bet he does!
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Because in a tribe an individual is irrelevant, only the integrity of the tribe (ie loyalty to the leader) matters. Often hardwired into language too eg “how are you?” Can only mean “how are you and your extended family”.



