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s value, we are willing to violate our sense of the sacred, engaging in trade-offs that are normally taboo. Experiments by the American psychologists Philip Tetlock and Jonathan Haidt help us see what is sacred by asking individuals what they would pay to do something sacrilegious. If something is sacred, of grea