sacraliser c'est immoraliser

Here's my attempt to translate the French blog entry I quoted earlier:

To declare something sacred is to hold it above comparison. It is to refuse to make a rational choice on the subject. It is to call for the automatic and irrational acceptance of certain behaviors by banishing the alternatives under the imposing yoke of moral authority. It is, in short, intimidation.

The refusal to choose rationally does not prevent the dilemma -- it prevents only the rational decision-making to best solve the dilemma, and substitutes instead the superstitious faith in arbitrarily accepted codes of conduct, which are themselves subject to the manipulations of sentimentalists, blackmailers, and other swindlers.

To make something sacred is to remove it from the realm of morality: it is to deny the moral dignity of man, his freedom and his responsibility, when faced with the choice of exactly those things most precious to his existence.

The next time you hear someone use as an argument The Sacredness Of Life (or of anything else) or ask indignantly, But how can you make such a comparison? -- don't fall for it! It is precisely because the comparison is possible -- and offers a crushingly obvious conclusion -- that there is a moral choice on your part. Your fate depends on your ability to escape the fiends who would take your conscience hostage.

(With help from babelfish and Professor Marcus.)

Actually, just for kicks, I'll include babelfish's somewhat less coherent version:

To declare a thing crowned, it is to prohibit to compare it with other things. It is thus to refuse to make rational choices since this thing is concerned. It is to call with the irrational acceptance of a certain behavior posed a priori by evacuating the alternatives under the imposing yoke of the moral authority. In short, it is intimidation. The refusal to choose rationally does not prevent the emergence of dilemmas concerning the sacrilized thing, it prevents just the rational decision-making to solve these dilemmas as well as possible, and the superstitious faith in certain arbitrarily accepted codes of conduct substitutes to him, and which are then the subject of handling of traffickers in finer feelingss, main singers, and other swindlers. To sacrilize it is immoraliser: it is to deny the moral dignity of the man, his freedom and its responsibility, vis-a-vis with the choices which precisely relate to the most invaluable things of its existence. The next time that you will intend somebody to use the crowned character of the life (or other) like argument, or to be indignant but how can you make this comparison? -- you do not let take with the trap. It is precisely because the comparison is possible, and offers a conclusion of a crushing obviousness, that there is moral choice of your share. Your fate depends on your capacity to escape to the torturers who take your conscience as an hostage.