Then, by your way of thinking, when one makes a sacrifice to ones god one is insulting a tyrant.   See 9 other replies

“Sacrifice” is the surrender of a greater value for the sake of a lesser one or of a nonvalue. Thus, altruism gauges a man’s virtue by the degree to which he surrenders, renounces or betrays his values (since help to a stranger or an enemy is regarded as more virtuous, less “selfish,” than help to those one loves).“Sacrifice” does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious. “Sacrifice” does not mean the rejection of the evil for the sake of the good, but of the good for the sake of the evil. “Sacrifice” is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don’t. If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.Concern for the welfare of those one loves is a rational part of one’s selfish interests. If a man who is passionately in love with his wife spends a fortune to cure her of a dangerous illness, it would be absurd to claim that he does it as a “sacrifice” for her sake, not his own, and that it makes no difference to him, personally and selfishly, whether she lives or dies.   See 9 other replies

There seems to be a fallacy of false alternative. If a parent loves a child and goes out of its way to take care of it, we don't think the parent is a slave to the child or that its sole purpose is to benefit the child. Similarly, if we say it is nice to help others, we don't mean that you are to become a slave. However, when one's child is threatened, one does go to great lengths to protect it, even risking serious sacrifices and sometimes even death. Similarly, when others are threatened a lover of people may have to go great lengths to protect them, even sometimes to the point of death. That's just the way things are. It's horrible, but it's horrible because it needs doing, not because it is done. The tragedy is already there, prior to the sacrifice. The sacrifice just re-directs it and makes it much smaller.   See 9 other replies