Claim. Secular love expressed as free sex breaks the foundations of filial piety and loyalty; without true love, the entire four-stage curriculum collapses at its first rung.
Elaboration. SMM ties moral collapse to the foundation of love: “The conclusion is that without true love there is no such thing as a filial child. At the moment, people have inherited the tradition of secular love, false love. So they presently enjoy free sex and whatnot based on secular love. What they are doing is breaking down all the foundations of love, filial piety and loyalty” (CSG 14.3 §2, 286-300, 1997.8.13). The chapter-6 echo is sharper still: “free sex is Satan’s domain of love filled with ensnaring evil spirits” (CSG 14.6, 280-135, 1996.11.24). Sexual practice is read not as adjacent to loyalty but as the load-bearing precondition for it. When the lineage-shaping practice of sexuality is broken, the love-grounded virtues lose their material support.