Dennis Prager argues that loyalty to family, tribe, or nation has caused much of history's evil by overriding moral obligations. True conservatism means preserving moral goodness from God, not blind group allegiance. God commands goodness toward others, not loyalty that abandons ethics.
Loyalty to kin, meaning extended family, loyalty to ethnic, ethnicity, ethnically related people, loyalty to my tribe, to my nation, in many, many instances., these produced much of the evil of human history. Loyalty, the, the, the kinship trumped the moral. Nothing can trump the moral. That, that's my point. That's what true conservatism is. We conserve the greatest values of history. And one of them is that God wants us to be good. And that's number one. He doesn't say loyal to kin, and he doesn't say loyal, loyalty to friends. Those are beautiful things if they're moral. Uh, he doesn't say any of these other things. He wants us, he created us to be good to one another. And by the way, when we weren't good to one another and everybody was pretty rotten, the story goes that he just, he destroyed the world.
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