benignuman and Patur avol ossur :at logician’s request, I opened a new thread for this disucssion “infallibility and chachomim”.You are welcome to join us there.
Health: your report is correct but that is the issue. At the time, the exmption may have been desperately needed, as it was after the Holocaust and European Jewry with its Rabbonim had been decimated. Additionally, you had a tiny percentage who were exempt. Today, you have a huge tsibbur that is exempt and a large amount of them don’t deserve the exemption. That was my point.