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Well it is nice to know that this discussion has gotten off to a good respectable start. I hope it remains that way.
I have a question for you. How do you perceive the story of Purim? After all, Mordechai was not paskening on a specific Halacha. As we know the seudah of Achashverosh was Glatt Kosher (Mehadrin min HaMihadrin). Achashverosh did everything he could to accommodate the Jews to be there. What halacha did they transgress? EVERYBODY held that we needed to go in order to show good will to the King. Why then were they all chiyav misah?! According to you they transgressed nothing by not listening to Mordechai. They weren’t required to listen to him being that it was outside the realm of Halachah. So why a death sentence on their head?
(incidentally, we see that most of Klal Yisrael messed up in Mitzrayim for not listening to Levi when told not to help out “build up the land”.)