[Avodah] Corona related questions

[Zev Sero]

On 26/3/20 6:02 pm, Micha Berger wrote:
> Are you assuming that the government might imprison or fine violators,
> rather than prevent or break up violations?

Yes, I am assuming that.  People are getting fines, in various places, 
including Melbourne, where RIB lives.  But I'm also asserting a 
fundamental difference between a *recommendation* that a shul have a 
policeman to help enforce the rules that a it has made on its own 
property, versus some uninvolved bystander having a *chiyuv* to *report* 
to the authorities a violation of *their* rules.

Even if you agree with the authorities' rules, and even if you think 
compliance is a chiyuv, it's a question that needs answering whether you 
are even *allowed* to inform on someone who is breaking them, let alone 
whether you have a chiyuv to do so.   After all, the people breaking the 
rules presumably disagree with you on the rules' advisability let alone 
on their obligatory nature, and they're breaking them on their turf, not 
yours.  So it's very different from RAE's case.


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