Midwesterner: Don’t make up reasons for Dinim D’Oraisa. That might be a nice explanation, but the real reason is that Hashem told us Mikerev Achecha Tasim Alecha Melech. R’ Akiva was not because it would have been Assur to do, but because there was a real Sakanas Nefashos (see the end of the Tanur Shel Achnai story).
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