Loyalty to wrongdoers can persist without condoning their actions

Evidence

Because it’s not in my hands. You know, God’s the one that’s going to judge them. I’m not. What I do as a human being is to be there for them, no matter how much they wronged me. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 682

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A genuine life-wisdom about drawing the line between human loyalty and divine judgment — the distinction between being present for someone and excusing their conduct.
• QUESTION: The mechanism Lina articulates — separating one’s role (being there) from judgment (God’s) — could be worth unpacking as a moral framework for loyalty to people who have harmed or deceived you.
• XREF: connects to: A community can persist on fidelity to an event without any beliefs — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 732; Perpetrator-group members can benefit from crimes without committing them — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 2066