The immanent eschaton staff has been divided over the following story from the Jerusalem Post. We therefore wish to submit the issue to our readers to decide: which side is right?
(Briefly, the two sides of the debate are: 1. if the guy now going to jail would have been a member of a religion where one can't wear wristbands on Tuesdays, he wouldn't be going to jail; he should not automatically be assumed to be worse than the Tuesday Wrist Worshipper.
2. The second argument, termed by its major proponent "The Reflexively-Anti-Ultra-Orthodox-Argument", goes as follows: he's ultra-orthodox, therefore the other side must be right.)
Please submit your thoughtful comments.
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8 comments:
I'm sorry that doesn't qualify.
how do you know the tuesday wrist worshipper wouldn't have to go to jail?
the implication of the article was that the judge said that wearing the band was not a violation of orthodox judaism because his posek said so. anonymous's point is valid only if that was an irrelevant side point. if we take the judge at face value, religion can be a reason to excuse criminals from this requirement, but the judge has paskened that this is mutar. question is: should he?
possibly conceded
though i still don't know what orhodoky is.
ahem...orhodoxy.
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