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A rule you break first and rename later as a lesson.
means An act that violates moral or religious law — a transgression against a code you're expected to follow.
from Traced back to Old English 'synn,' with roots deeper in Germanic languages — possibly related to Latin 'sons,' meaning guilty. One popular folk tale claims it comes from an archery term meaning 'to miss the mark,' borrowing from Greek 'hamartia' used in the New Testament — but that's a mix-up of two separate words, not a true origin. The real Germanic root likely carried a sense of 'being truly guilty,' tying the word from the start to blame and reckoning rather than archery.
- etymology
- archery term meaning to miss the mark
- universal feature
- every culture bans something, none agree what
- economics
- sin taxes fund governments that tolerate it
- psychology
- guilt is just memory with a moral opinion