There are two issue. One is that if you encounter someone who doesn't reflect your values, because you have made those values part of your core identity, you w

There are two issue. One is that if you encounter someone who doesn't reflect your values, because you have made those values part of your core identity, you will react very emotionally to them. The second is that many of the people that use commonly sited values as their identity often simply copy/paste them from the others - without actually questioning them themselves, and so are really more part of a trend than a unit of original thought. I agree that it's important to have values, but I'd love to see more people tolerant of a diversity of belief systems than a monolithic intolerant mass psyche.