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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  If you put your family first in your values hierarchy, you're saying that they come before all other loyalties, including commitment to truth, integrity, and unconditional love. You're saying you'd be willing to lie, cheat, and steal on their behalf if necessary.
Such a person can't be trusted. How can you trust someone who puts loyalty to individuals ahead of truth? It's like a member of the mob saying, "Ya gotta do dis for da family." Criminal gangs have similar loyalties.
A person who has no higher ideals than loyalty to family is a wretch. |
That actually makes a lot more sense now that you explained it in such a way. This sounds similar to the idea of not making your family your whole identity, because it can lead to being manipulated by them in ways they didn't either realise consciously (unless intentional, of course).
Which connects up to the explanation for why an individual shouldn't be given higher loyalty over Truth. An individual is prone to unawareness of his/her actions, while Truth just is and complete.
At least that's what I got out of this, my understanding feels a little more deeper now.