[Avodah] Tzinius and the ILG

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R' Michael Kopinsky writes:
>> I think that the fact  that the
> Torah permits slavery indicate that it is not  INHERENTLY
> problematic. <<
 
R' Akiva Miller writes:




>>According to this logic, rape is not inherently immoral, because if  
it was, then we would not find a case (yefas toar) where it is  mutar.>>

>>>>>
Well, a more limited inference would be that rape of an enemy woman in  
wartime is not inherently immoral.  (Speaking of a milchemes mitzva.)  
 
Rape is as "normal" an act of war as is killing enemy  combatants.  If  you 
assume a world in which soldiers routinely raped  women in war, the nation 
whose soldiers first took the woman home and gave  her a month to mourn, treated 
her humanely yada yada, would surely have been  seen as infinitely more 
self-restrained, humane and honorable than  the nation that just raped women in the 
"normal" way of  wartime.




--Toby  Katz
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