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Comment author: Dentin 10 July 2015 07:53:58PM 2 points [-]

That's unfortunate. There can be no sacred values. That way lies madness.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 11 July 2015 07:15:37AM *  1 point [-]

There can be no sacred values.

Nevertheless:

This matches research showing that there are "sacred values", like human lives, and "unsacred values", like money. When you try to trade off a sacred value against an unsacred value, subjects express great indignation (sometimes they want to punish the person who made the suggestion).

-- Circular Altruism

That way lies madness.

Well...

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