The purpose of political violence is to verify the sacred ideal
(The Law of Sacrifice)
Trench
“Science is organized around a limited number of concepts, certain pillars that support the entire structure. There are a limited number of such concepts (or “laws”), but they account for everything we see in the world around us.” (Hazen and Trefil, 2009).

“Newton developed compact laws that apply to an immense assortment of situations. His three Laws of Motion—like all fundamental laws that govern science—seem simple, almost simplistic. The deepest insights of the human mind often have this characteristic.” (Hazen and Trefil, 2009).
  1. Societies invent ideological concepts that they elevate to “absolutes”— worshipped as ideas or ideals that constitute the foundation of their cultures. However, how do people persuade themselves that these social constructions are true or real?
  2. Franco Fornari states that war is the spectacular establishment of a human situation whereby “death assumes absolute value.” The ideas for which we die have a right to truth—because "death becomes a demonstrative process.”
  3. Beliefs become real when citizens (and enemies) die for them. Sacrificial death “gives witness” to the depth of devotion; becomes the source of the truth and the power of the idea or ideal.
  4. The nature of the idea or belief or entity for which people sacrifice their lives is fungible. The ideal might be called preserving the Union, France,  the British Empire, Germany, the (Japanese) Emperor, Communism, Allah, a Tamil homeland, or “freedom and democracy.”
  5. The ideas or entities—the nature of the sacred ideals or objects for which people die--differ. However, the mechanism of validation is the same. The sacred object or ideal comes alive--comes into being--to the extent that human beings die and kill in its name.
  6. The concept of “killing” is subordinate to the concept of “dying.” The purpose of acts of “aggression” (killing in war, genocide or terrorism) is to get others to die for the idea or ideal that is worshipped by one’s own group. One kills members of the other group—so that they will die in the name of one’s own group’s sacred ideal (death to the non-believers).