[Malician]

I really like this answer, because it has a spark that isn't in the groupthink.

What if conditioning is designed to shape someone in a society or circumstances which no longer exist, or if someone realizes that they would like to be part of a different society than they were conditioned for?

There are quite a few ways conditioning can go very wrong, and leave someone frozen in an exceptionally painful state, wedged halfway through a door so to speak, which is good for nobody. It seems like a tool to get them unstuck could be pretty valuable.

[mantas]

On the other hand, remaining conditioning can keep the old spirit alive during temporary hick-ups in a society.

Point in case - USSR/satellites and restoring after the regime went down. The regime was working hard to remove the old conditioning and replace with the new conditioning. The communities did revert to the old ways in no time. Be it Catholicism in Poland, ethnic question in Baltic states, Tsarist Russia sentiments in Russia-proper, all sorts of separatists movements that were only silenced during the regime (Chechnya, Crimea ownership, Nagorno Karabach...). And capitalist/private property setup all around.