[Avodah] Must we agree with the Torah?

[Zev Sero]

On 12/08/2013 8:53 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:51:11PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> The trouble begins when we start telling ourselves and our children the lies
>> that we have to tell those outside, and they -- not knowing any better - come
>> to believe them.  The lies become "toras imecha", and when someone tells them
>> the truth they're shocked.  And eventually the same thing even happens to we
>> who invented the lies in the first place.
>
> OTOH, one can't overapply this theory and deny cases where our values
> and the western world's do overlap.

Of course not.  Western values don't *have* to be wrong, and quite often they
aren't.  But sometimes they are.


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Zev Sero               A citizen may not be required to offer a 'good and
zev at sero.name          substantial reason' why he should be permitted to
                        exercise his rights. The right's existence is all
                        the reason he needs.
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