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"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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Right extremism is more often tribal extremism: integrity tests get totally pwned by loyalty tests. Left extremism is more often an institutional extremism, based more on purity tests.
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