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

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:41:45PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> 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.
>
> This is what happens when you change halacha based on what biased
> "professionals in the field" come up with each week:
> http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/285980/fudging-numbers-mona-charen
> http://inside.mines.edu/~dkaffine/CELLACCIDENTS.pdf

And high rates of emphysema among Jews who could have known better
decades ago, but are taught to distrust the experts.

Bottom line is that we have a chiyuv to do the best we can to keep
ourselves and others alive. And that means playing the odds, not
pointing at the people bucking general consensus because of the
minority of cases where they turn out to be right.

Gut Voch!
-Micha

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