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Tim Freeman's avatar

People are attached to sacred things. The definition I prefer for attachment is: you are attached to something if you aren't making plans to deal with it going away. With this definition, not all attachments are sacred, since I don't have plans to deal with various forms of injury, but intactness of my body isn't sacred. But, as far as I can tell, people only regard a thing as sacred if they are attached to it.

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RobinHanson's avatar

Yes, war is sacred in many ways. So poll respondents seem adamant to declare that other things they care about are MORE sacred. Not sure I believe them though.

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