Thanks!

white lies

You've caught me :-)

My stance on terminal values is "it's possible to be wrong about what you deeply desire." The person who deconverted through trying to figure out how to better serve God likely did so in the process of realizing they had deeper humanitarian values. Similarly with the person who tried to help their neigborhood out of poverty and become an EA.

This is in part why I said that reasoning well has "little" (instead of "nothing") to do with what you're reasoning towards. Similarly, in "it's not about changing where you're going," I had no intention of equating "where you're going" with "where you think you're going" :-)

However, I agree that the default apparent connotation contains one doozy of a white lie.