Loyalty In Team Sports Analysis

Loyalty is the devotion and faithfulness you have to a community, a group, or an individual. Your duties can be obligations of respect, voluntary, or obligations you have agreed to, involuntary. Sandel states, “These include obligations of solidarity and loyalty, historic memory or religions faith- moral claims that arise from the communities and traditions shape our identity (Sandel pg220).” An example of this is when a basketball player signs the consent form to be on the basketball team he is obligating himself to make practice and games and put forth his best effort. Basketball is a team sport so the other members are relying on each individual. By making that obligation the boy may miss hanging out with his friends or playing other sports