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(Over)valuing possession

Hardly anything has an objective value, but even our subjective valuation of something may be clouded by a consideration of questionable relevance.

Last week, I shipped a box containing a large number of personal possessions, never to be seen again. Some of them I had been able to see before I dropped them off to be…