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Don't know why you are being down-voted. You make interesting philosophical points.

If something change your values in a way that the old you would not accept, are you still you?

Maybe it’s not “something changes your values” but you learn to view them from a different perspective.

But is it not your values your perspective about the world?

I'd say one must be very mindful of the complex (and not well understood at all) implementation of such things with respect to the conscious vs subconscious mind.

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