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If they conflict, one or the other is currently a 'bias'. You get to decide which one you like more.
Is eating ice-cream more important than your desire to stay healthy? You must overcome your desire to stay healthy.
Is staying healthy more important than eating ice-cream? Then you must overcome the desire to eat ice-cream.
'bias' is a fuzzy category referring to the corner of the conflict*value space where value is low and conflict with other values is high. Stretched all the way over to ice-cream and health, it starts to lose meaning. Just talk about which one you want to overcome.
That's really not how I would understand a bias. I would think of a bias as a feature of your psychology that distorts your decision-making process away from the rational; that is, optimal pursuit of your goals. The planning fallacy is a bias, having conflicting goals is just a feature of my utility function.