Under favourable conditions, the establishing of a relationship with those of inferior values may offer the possibility of renewal to the sustainable lifestyle. If the sustainable lifestyle is reckless in its initiatives and ignores advice, favourable conditions are destabilized and catastrophe may result. The situation may be stabilized with the assistance of those of inferior values, but the result will be unfortunate if the sustainable lifestyle achieves this out of self-interest. If the sustainable lifestyle abandons its contacts with those of inferior values, the cultivation of its contacts with those of superior values will further destabilize the situation rather than leading to its renewal. Under exceptional conditions the task faced can be so dangerous that the sustainable lifestyle may have to accept that it may accomplish its aim only by sacrificing its very existence for the values in question.
Excessive importance is underminded by persistence.