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ABSTRACT
The paper offers a few reflections on moral implications of making sacrifices and on possible duties to make sacrifices. It does not provide an exhaustive or a systematic account of the subject. There are too many disparate questions, and too many different perspectives from which to examine them to allow for a systematic let alone an exhaustive account, and too many factual issues that I am not aware of. Needless to say, the observations that follow are in part stimulated by the popularity of some views that are mistaken. I will not however examine any specific view or account of these matters. The aim is to provide some pointers that will be helpful when considering specific issues regarding the moral significance of sacrifice.
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Notes
1. I argued for it in Raz, Value, Respect and Attachment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, ch. 3.
2. I am not referring to cases in which one overcomes negative attitudes of this kind, but rather to occasions in which one succumbs to them in thought and feelings.