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“PAA: The Church made the Cheshbon that people cannot be good and righteous all year round, so Carnival is an “out” where you can do anything wrong and it is forgiven.”
Sounds like a good sevara. My expert opinion is that it is similar to the Rema but not quite the same. Chazal weren’t saying that guys need a “day off” so let’s let them have a “day off” on Purim (although I have heard some contemporary people [Rabbis maybe] conceptualize Purim as such). What Chazal were saying (this is all according to the Rema’s pshat) is that since they will be doing aveiros anyway, we may as well have them doing the aveiros in a “muttar fashion”. Think of it as kind of like Yefas Toar. In conclusion you are still a kofer (let’s see if this can get past the moderators this time).
OK, as long as we know it’s just a joke.