Flying is often a convenient and valuable means of travel. But it can also be lethal if we fail to abide some simple guidelines designed to keep us safe. Many of these rules, procedures, and limits were explained to us by our instructors, and then followed up by a request that we make a vow such as... "Promise you'll never go below minimums, and that you will divert instead," may have been one of those made, when first learning to fly instruments.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/breaking-solemn-vows