The sacred might be things or norms that have been recognised as being very vulnerable to goodharting, so their sacredness is a protection mechanism. (But this goodharting would probably have to harm the priestly/ruler class to be enshrined as norms, or maybe harm the folk if its enshrined as folk wisdom.
- What kind of things make something vulnerable to goodharting? Collapsing multiple distinct dimensions of value (e.g. bad ESG frameworks). Other forms of legibility? Seeing like a state notes
How does this fit in with ritual purity motivations fot sacredness?
How does this fit in with girards notion of the sacred as norms made to prevent spirals of reciprocal violence?