# loyalty (kept)

Keeping one's own walls where a group one belongs to sets them, when setting them in another place would make its own reach wider.

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [belonging](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-belonging.member), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [wide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wide.spatial), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent)

**Through:** Belonging makes a group's walls read as one's own; loyalty is that reading holding when it costs something, when the member could reach further by setting its walls where the group does not.

**Novel properties:**
- membership that holds at a cost
- reach given up to keep a wall shared

## Used by
- [political party](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-political-party.power) (L18)

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