What is a fanlisting?

A fanlisting is a web clique that lists fans of a particular subject. Unlike most web cliques, a person does not need a web site in order to join. Fans from around the world submit their information to their approved fanlisting and they are then listed to show their love for the subject.
(source: thefanlistings.org)

Loyalty

Conventional

Social and Cultural
Loyalty began with fellow-feeling for one's family, gene-group and friends. Loyalty comes most naturally amongst small groups or tribes where the prospect of the whole casting out the individual seems like the ultimate, unthinkable rejection.

Individual and Personal
Individual loyalty develops through friendships and bonds of similar likes, and fidelity in marriages where monogamy is important. Personal loyalty forming from close bonds is more-or-less interspersed with frustrations and confusions unique to the individual. It is generally a sense of devotion, attachment, love, or desire of understanding (appeasing) and relating to the person or God who one is loyal to.

Etymology and semantics

The English word "loyalty" came into use in the early part of the 15th century in the sense of fidelity to one? oath, or in service, love, etc; the later state-oriented sense appears in the 16th century. The Old French word loialt (modern French loyaut?, comes from loial (loyal), Scots leal, Latin legalis (legal, from lex (law)). The word functioned in the special feudal sense of one who has full legal rights, a legalis homo being opposed to the "outlaw". Thence in the sense of "faithful", it meant one who kept faithful allegiance to his feudal lord, and so loyal to the ultimate temporal power.

Loyalty and ethics

Plato said that only a man who is just can be loyal, and that loyalty is a condition of genuine philosophy. The philosopher Josiah Royce said it was the supreme moral good, and that one's devotion to an object mattered more than the merits of the object itself.

Lao Tzu's take on loyalty: "When people lost sight of the way to live Came codes of love and honesty, Learning came, charity came, Hypocrisy took charge; When differences weakened family ties Came benevolent fathers and dutiful sons; And when lands were disrupted and misgoverned Came ministers commended as loyal." from the Witter Bynner translation.

Source: Wikipedia / 1911 Encyclopedia

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