[Avodah] Cellphones and Driving: A Halachik Perspective by R. Yosef Kanefsky

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Thu Dec 15 18:53:14 PST 2011


On 15/12/2011 9:19 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> Given our attitude toward piquach nefesh and safeiq PN, I would think
> that it take "great responsibility" NOT to point out something that
> professionals in the field found to be a great risk.

"Professionals in the field" usually get their parnassah one way or
another from finding dangers, not from debunking them; I don't think
their word carries all that much weight.  One may point out what they say,
but I don't think one can turn it into a psak.

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zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
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