There are few things in life more important than...

loyalty.

We don't owe loyalty to anyone.  We choose to give it.  We are loyal to our family members because we love them and because we choose to be loyal to them.  There have been moments in life when I didn't feel filled with love to members of my family (brief, fleeting moments at best), but my loyalty to them has never wavered.  Same with my good friends.  I happen to believe that the highest compliment you can pay to a friend is being there when needed.  Loyalty isn't everything or the only thing, but it is right up there near the top of the list of important values to have.

But sometimes loyalty isn't rewarded and returned.  There is a case in the public eye at the moment that bears examination.  Gavin Doyle is a photographer who apparently was the assistant to Lindsay Lohan.  I say was because after he bailed her out of a New York City jail cell, she threw him out of her car and he told her to "never speak to him again."

Now for those unfamiliar with how these two are intertwined, Gavin Doyle was with Lindsay Lohan in her car when said car struck a truck.  She wanted him to take the blame for the accident because she wasn't supposed to be driving.  Apparently he gave her up to the Santa Monica cops and now she's repaid him by blowing him off in front of a group of paparazzi.

Loyalty among Hollywood A-listers and their assistants (not that she's anywhere near the A list) is rewarded.  Good salaries, perks and more come to those assistants who remain loyal to their star employers, particularly so when they manage to keep those star's secrets secret.  Nothing wrong with rewarding loyalty.  But even if Gavin Doyle exhibited what some might consider disloyalty by fessing up that he hadn't been driving, what LiLo did to him was wrong. 

He was there to bail her out of jail.  If he hadn't come, how long would she have had to wait before finally finding a way to get released?  Yet he's blown off as his reward for being there when she needed him.  That's just wrong.  It's one more example of how warped this woman's value system is.

Loyalty isn't forced.  It's given freely and should be recognized and cherished.