@ none2.0
I certainly did not say, or imply, that free will is evil. Your misunderstanding my post doesn’t change it’s meaning. If you take the time to read and think about what I wrote you will see that, on the contrary, I think that free will is essential for morality, it just isn’t moral in and of itself.
I agree with your premise in linking Morality and Consequences. I also agree that people can use law to justify very vile behavior. Where we part ways is your rejection of Rabbinic Authority.
One issue is that your rejection of Rabbinic Authority is arbitrary. For example, you advocate perusing the simple meaning of prophetic texts. Without the Rabbinically transmitted principal that the simple meaning of the text is true what grounds do you have for asserting that the simple meaning is intended by the Author? How do you know that the text was not meant to be understood allegorically? Will you say that some parts are literal and some allegorical and each person should interpret the text based on the cultural moral norms of that particular time and place?
Cultural norms can vary and so can ideas about morality. The Greeks did not see any negative consequences in pedophilia and deemed it moral. For a Utilitarian it is moral for 5 people to kill 1 person if it will make 5 out of the 6 people happy. Cyrenaics considered the pursuit of immediate physical gratification the highest moral virtue. Protagoras famously said that man is the measure of all things, renouncing any objective standard of morality altogether.