{"id":22248,"date":"2014-02-05T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2016-02-13T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T15:25:39","slug":"22248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/22248\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything-voluntary.com\/2014\/02\/words-poorly-used-25-sacrifice.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Sacrifice.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>Everything-Voluntary.com<\/a> | People often talk about making a sacrifice for others, or subsuming their individuality to an external cause, as a positive.  But what they are doing is choosing to behave in a certain way.  Others will refer to sacrifice as something positive expected of others &#8212; commanders will say that they had to sacrifice so many soldiers for a tactic or a strategy, idolators will say that they expect others to commit themselves entirely to the idol.  Sacrifice is a total nullification of an individual life, perhaps for a &#8220;noble&#8221; cause.  But who is to say?  A nullification is not a zero sum, it is a minus 1, and a minus of all unforeseen consequences of that 1.  Would one seek to nullify an act of the state, if the result was a zero sum?  Sacrifice is never a plus, never a conservation of the status quo, it is always a subtraction of the entirety of the sacrificed beings or objects, including their future.<\/p>\n<p>By Kilgore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything-Voluntary.com | People often talk about making a sacrifice for others, or subsuming their individuality to an external cause, as a positive. But what they are doing is choosing to behave in a certain way. Others will refer to sacrifice as something positive expected of others &#8212; commanders will say that they had to sacrifice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[863],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-sacrifice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}