I am loyal to my family and friends, business partners, and to those who I believe are fighting the good fight, as long as they continue the good fight. I do not consider myself a henchmen to any of them.

Loyalty is a conflict resolution tool. But when my relationships are such that nobody is pursuing contradictory goals to begin with, I find that it doesn't come up hardly at all.

On the rare occasion that it does, I try to circle back and mitigate the root cause so that I can resume a loyalty-free life thereafter.