... is there any particular reason that you are choosing to ignore entire paragraphs (multiple) by me that address the question of what it is you're actually trying to say with statements like this, while also demonstrating that under at least half of the available valid definitions of the terms you are using, your stated conclusion is demonstrably false?

That's what lawyers call a "leading question".

I do not accept your characterisation of the situation. FWIW, I ignore most of what I encounter on the internet - so don't take it too personally.

Yes, but goals are used extensively for signalling purposes. Declared goals should not normally be be taken to be actual goals - but more as what the brain's P.R. department would have others believe your goals to be.

Just two days ago I offered to help a man who, as a complication of poorly managed diabetes and other symptoms, is now infirm to the point of requiring assistance to move about his own home, commit suicide if that was what he wanted -- because I value personal autonomy and the requisite self-determination it implies. In other words, while some individuals might only be 'mouthing the words' of personal autonomy as an inherent good, I'm walking the walk over here. And I know for a fact that I am not the only person who does so.

So: I was not suggesting that people do not do good deeds. Indeed: good deeds make for good P.R.

So again: how does your - quite frankly, rather biased in appearances to me - epistemology account for the existence of individuals such as myself who do view personal liberty and autonomy as an inherent good and act upon that principle in our daily lives

So: people believe deeply in all kinds of religious and political doctrines and values. That doesn't mean that these are best modelled as being intrinsic values. When people change their religions and political systems, it is evidence against the associated values being intrinsic.

Valuing something instrumentally is not intended as some kind of insult. I value art and music instrumentally. It doesn't bother me that these are not intrinsic values.