We have to think of loyalty not necessarily to someone or something, but as an intransitive verb. Being loyal is an action springing from the depth of the I, on its own ground, and for this reason loyalty always finds a just way to be loyal to everyone and everything together, even enemies. Loyalty always takes full responsibility for its actions.
By contrast, obedience is always to someone or something. It is a sacrifice of one's own ground, a renunciation of responsibility, and it is exclusive: You can never obey two enemies together.
Loyalty strengthens the I, obedience weakens the I.
This has a strong relationship to algebra: Defining one's loyalty to apparently conflicting people or agendas, is the same as solving a system of multiple equations, for which the "x" is the I. Clarifying the equations and solving them in action build the I.
By contrast, obedience has no agency in posing equations, even less solving them, because the "x" is already given, and one has to shrink oneself to fit in.
Only a strong I can defend morality.
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