The word ‘sacrifice’ comes from the Latin for ‘making sacred’.
To me, this means devoting some resource to something you care about, basically asserting that you value the thing you care about more than any more directly instrumental utility you could get out of the resource. It’s a way to signal to yourself and others that you endorse assigning higher value to the thing you are making something sacred to honour than to competing uses of the resource.
The word ‘sacrifice’ comes from the Latin for ‘making sacred’.
To me, this means devoting some resource to something you care about, basically asserting that you value the thing you care about more than any more directly instrumental utility you could get out of the resource.
It’s a way to signal to yourself and others that you endorse assigning higher value to the thing you are making something sacred to honour than to competing uses of the resource.