[Avodah] halachic attitude to the convicted

[Rich, Joel]

See, that is *exactly* what I am talking about.  One minute we're talking about people who are threats to public safety, and the next minute someone like this is being put in that category through semantic legerdemain.
There is *no way* that a serial jaywalker is a threat to public safety, and therefore there is no heter at all to inform on him, and those who claim that he is not an appropriate subject for pidyon shvuyim have a tough case to make.

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Zev Sero          
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I'm truly honored as I have never before been deemed at the level to have indulged in "semantic legerdemain"
Do I understand you to say that the King does not have the right to determine what is necessary to maintain the public order/good under any definition of DMD and thus could not under halacha jail our serial jaywalker or are you saying he has the right to but we would then consider the jaywalker for an allocation of scarce communal assets to fulfill the mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim?

KT
Joel Rich
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