I probably shouldn't have alluded specifically to the "Feudal System", but I am Anglo-centric.
Just trying to express the idea that just about everybody in ME is in a web of obligations to those above them and responsibilities to those below them. And an ME person's actions reflect in both ways (Sins of the father, the parens must take responsibility for the apprentice's actions, and I am still wrapping my head around bastardry).
I thought that the commonness of the Personality Trait "Loyalty" amongst Grogs would argue in favour of the above idea.
I didn't think I needed to mention that the ideal is rarely in practice and there are local variations.
I was about to add that stories like "who will rid me of this turbulent priest" has coloured my thinking, but I was beaten to the punch.