Is there anyone you are completely loyal too?

[TickTockMan]

Is there anyone you are completely loyal too?

 

[Telstra]

Nope ... not "completely loyal"

 

[medic1]

Yes, and more than one.

 

[LeicsDom]

Yes, my best friend

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Of course. A few people.

 

[eastofeden]

Yes...also more than one for me. I am loyal by nature I think....nothing I have to "try" to do....

 

[NotHardUp1]

Loyalty means different things to different people.

For some, it means acting in the object of the loyalties best interest at all times, supporting them with love, time, or even tough love when necessary.

For others, it can mean siding with them in all situations. Many, many people find it difficult to feel connected to those who disagree with them on some point.

I am deeply loyal to some causes, to some friends and family, and even to some of the deceased. I'm also loyal to my state, my religion, and my nation. That doesn't mean I defend everything done in or by them. It does mean I am FOR them and champion them in certain areas. I am also loyal to certain leaders I have found to be virtuous, specifically Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther, Jimmy Carter, and other local leaders.

Finally, I am loyal to some cultural leaders like Dolly Parton, Julia Child, Arthur C. Clarke, or Glen Campbell.

Complete loyalty never occurs to me, as it is usually a demand made for total alignment that I don't find to be loyalty but sycophancy.

 

[Draven]

Yes, and more than one.

Pretty much my answer. There's more that I am more loyal to than myself.

 

[Cormac135]

Yes, my mum and my friends.

 

[peeonme]

Not with "blind" loyalty. Perhaps part of being loyal might be caring enough to tell someone that they are wrong. If one thinks that being loyal means that you always agree with them then I guess I'm not loyal.

 

[cityboy-stl]

---delete

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

No, I am the Betrayer. Dadada da da da da.

She sounds a bit like Bugs Bunny, doesn´t she?

 

[Willie Boy]

By "completely loyal" I assume you mean "someone you would die for, kill for, live for" ..... and everything in between?

I have a very short list for that. In fact there's only one person on that list..... my partner. My friends come close, but they all understand if I had to choose between saving any of them or saving my partner they're completely S.O.L. I'll do what I can for them, but my partner's well being takes precedent.

 

[bankside]

There are a very few people I have not offered my loyalty to, in the way that NotHardUp1 describes in just first definition. It's my default preference, even in superficial matters.

Thinking more conventionally where it is a substantial and time-tested loyalty, there are five people who have ever had command of it. My sister. A woman. A man. My man. And a boy when we were boys. No small amount of joy or heartache in any of those situations. Though my loyalty is a permanent gift, it can fall into abeyance if I see that is becomes burdensome for the recipient. I could also withdraw it given a gross error in judgment on my part about the person's character but even there I look to be proved wrong.

 

[IceColdLover]

My mother and my gay male best friend. Really anyone who shows mutual respect.

 

[TickTockMan]

For some, it means acting in the object of the loyalties best interest at all times, supporting them with love, time, or even tough love when necessary.

That is my idea of it.



I will say "complete" was the wrong word. Is there a term for almost 100%, but not quite?

 

[88Jockstraps]

Less than five people in the whole world.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Natello4]

Loyal to my own heart. Thank goodness, there are good values installed. /I don't like very strong ties. They make me run far far far away to find some more fesh air.

 

[Vitamin]

Yes, but loyalty is a two way street. Don't expect me to stick my neck out for you, if you ain't never there for me.