Nowadays people don't defend what is right, they defend who they like and who they benefit from. Principles have become flexible. Morality bends when convenience is involved. Right and wrong are no longer the standard. Preferences, advantages. If someone is useful, their flaws are ignored. If someone is liked, their mistakes are excused. But when benefit disappears, so does loyalty.

True integrity stands alone. It does not depend on affection. It does not depend on gain. Defending what is right often costs relationships, often costs comfort. That is why few do it. It is easier to protect connection than to protect truth, easier to side with power than to stand with principle. But character is revealed when benefit is removed.
Ask yourself, do you defend truth even when it disadvantages you? Because loyalty to people without loyalty to principles is not strength, it is strategy.