[Avodah] Mechallel Shabbos to destroy a non-kosher phone

[Arie Folger]

RZS replied to RAE:
>> Only to people who wish to sublimate their their will to his authority.
>> And almost by definition, anyone who defies that authority  has
>> withdrawn his or her consent.
>
> Hardly.   Or else no melech and no beis din would ever have authority.

Well, that's why a melekh only becomes one after being properly
appointed by a navi and Sanhedrin. Barring that, he is no melekh. Man
malkheio, rabbanon can only work for those who accept that rav's
authority, so indeed, the kind of king you make a rebbe into is one of
rather limited authority.

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Arie Folger,
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