re: Is Paris the world's most revered city?

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How does this follow?

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"Sacred" has multiple meanings. I obviously wasn't referring to religion.

- secured against violation, infringement, etc., as by reverence or sense of right:

- properly immune from violence, interference, etc., as a person or office.

If a belligerent alien race came down to Earth and wished a purely mean display, and gave me the choice of the following to destroy, but it must be at least one,

Mecca
Jerusalem
Rome
Paris
London

I'd choose Mecca.


Paris goes last... it must be secured against violation and destruction before any other city on Earth, and I haven't even been there.