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Ok, but now you've redefined the concept of X being sacred to mean "Will give lip-service to X when faced with a relative rank-ordering of even worse choices - and then the actions will be inconsistent with their words because humans aren't internally consistent"

I don't see the intellectual value of this redefinition. There should have at least some predictbility of people's actions, e.g. if democracy is sacred people will rally to the defense of someone's right to compete fairly in elections even when they disagree with him. That's very obviously not happening.

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Humans aren't internally consistent, democracy is definitely sacred - try convincing 20 people that a different form of government is better, and their responses will show you.

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