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ubiquitin
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Yes, plus today was a glitchy day. thanks for powering through, and sticking with me.

“if we allow our own “critical thinking ” to decide whice are exceptions, then in essence it is always our “critical thinking “deciding which is worse.”

Thats a variant of slippery slope. It isnt logically compelling.

“according to your logic, the reason , possibly, that a penuya has no onesh is because its the worst… sound weird to me but hey!”

Oh totally sounds weird.
But you grant that your position that theft is worse than rape is baffling to (I didnt go back to check but I believe in the first thread you indicated that while you felt this was correct, it was hard to understand)

SO both of us are stuck with a hard to understand position, is mine so much stranger than yours?

“when society devolves to a point where murder is permissable would you then , using your critical thinking….”
No 2 reasons (dont get caught up on the order)
1) We’d use our critical thinking to realize why murder is worse and that society was wrong
2) We have the Torah to follow and the torah tells us murder is yehraog vela yaavor. so even if worms seemed worse. We are mevatel our daas to the Torah.