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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann
the former! tho I'm not sure my extension is quite right, there's probably more to the sacred than schelling-fence-on-roids
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Replying to @okayultra @sonyaellenmann
almost surely more *broadly* defined sacredness is probably unlikely to be useful, and mostly agree w/ you . . .
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that having sacredness comes with costs--say inflexibility in a changing environment; defector exploitation; etc
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BUT exploiting human attraction to the sacred can be a reliable way of enforcing good norms, w/o some other costs
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example of probably-net-good sacredness in the US: judicial authority. Supreme Court basically secular priests
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and yeah some decisions idiotic but sacrosanctity insulates from worse impulses of politicians w/ armies
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