Reply #4: Sanctity is like love

[dmallind]

It's an emotional response present only in those who feel that emotion. There is obviously no objective state of being sacred. There is obviously no test or measure or even universal perception of sacredness, but that doesn't mean that people cannot feel that something is sacred via perfectly normal biological processes.

Does that make the object/place/person sacred in fact? Only as much as we can assume Shrub really is loved by his wife and kids etc. George W Bush is beloved. Cows are sacred. The utterance "OM" is sacred. All statements are perfectly true because they truthfully describe emotions felt by some people in regard to these objects. The statement only becomes false if you say "Cows are sacred to everyone" or "George W Bush is universally beloved".

This is not even a case of pushing subjective truth. I could say "Queen Elizabeth is married" and nobody would dispute that sentence (or very few at least). She is not however married to me. The same goes for the sanctity of Bush cows and OM. They are beloved/sacred because they are so to >0 people.