[Avodah] Right/Wrong

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 03:16:42PM +0000, Kenneth Miller via Avodah wrote:
: There is a thought in this thread that if G-d does something, then it
: is good by definition. Yet Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai considered the
: possibility that G-d had another option which was even better than the
: option that He did choose.

Aside from Zev's point, that the machloqes is over which is pleasanter
for the person, not which is good...

I think the discussion is more what if HQBH tells us to do something,
it is good by definition, necessarily good by implication, or somehow
more distantly related to morality. (I guess someone could say halakhah
is not connected to morality, but I don't see that coming up as an
O hashkagah.)

: This sounds to me like a good argument for the view that people (or at
: least certain people, such as the Sanhedrin) CAN decide what is right
: and what is wrong.

Can determine, which is still different than the original idea on
Areivim, that consensus *defines* morality.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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