Health – “You implied (and possibly mean) that noone should have cell phones. This is typical of the mentality nowadays -find a problem and assur the whole thing. I think people do this in our generation to pat themselves on the back -saying to themselves -“I’m better than everyone else”.”
I think that the vast majority of people who assur things do it (as crazy as this might sound) because they think those things are having a negative influence, and they want that influence stopped. Not because they think everybody else is isn’t frum, not because they think they’re “better than everyone else”, not even to “pat them selves on the back”. I think they do it because they see a problem, and want it fixed. Just because somebody wants things differently than you do does not mean he looks down on you. We have (or at least should have) the right to be machmir without being accused of “hating”, “shunning”, or forming an “exclusive club”. Why assume the worst? Can’t we at least entertain the possibility that all those “frummies” might actually be decent, well-meaning people? Or is that too much to ask?