Tang Soo Do · Five codes
Loyalty to country
Definition
Be loyal to the country that holds your duty. Loyalty is not a blank check, and it is not louder than righteousness.
The lesson
The code does not ask you to love every decision a government makes. It asks you not to abandon the people and the just obligations of the place you live when they become inconvenient. Pay what you owe. Tell the truth. Refuse an order, a crowd, or a flag that requires you to do wrong.
A man practices this without a speech. He keeps the law that is just, serves when service is actually needed, and will not hide inside patriotism when the right action is unpopular.
Name one duty you owe the place you live, and do it. Name one loyalty you would refuse if it asked you to abandon the truth.
Nationalism used as permission to despise people, or a refusal to belong to anything at all.