Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

It may be that you are obsessively principled, but that doesn't quite feel like the right term here. Not that it isn't a reasonable or useful thing to be doing, but "principled" to me suggests obligations to someone or something outside, or a belief that it would be ethically wrong not to do this. Nor do you sound obsessed, from what you say here: committed, perhaps, but not obsessed.