Rationality: Starting Points

One of the troubles with rationality and philosophy is starting points. How and where you start from and the logic that ensues may lead to a logical conclusion, but not necessarily a nice one. I could think of the results of some philosophical thought processes that lead to an elitist position. So that the values that we apply to our use of rationality are important and where do we get our values from?. Ultimately I think that our values are drawn from thought and relationships that provide the context of our lives. From this we create axioms _ unprovable assertions of basic value. And these axioms in relationship with our lives construct a world view that confirms our axioms.