Reply To: To: benignuman Re: Extrajudicial death penalty in halacha

Sam2, We will have to disagree on that because the implication of your position is that a Jew who eats a bacon sandwich in an open cafeteria every morning is not committing a c”H so long as he is doing it because of his taaiva rather than trying to promote bacon as kosher. Regarding mishkav zochor, almost all its Jewish practitioners as well as a majority of its non-Jewish practitioners are aware that it is a violation of Biblical law.

But irregardless of that point I brought a second rationale of this transgression being promoted in an increasingly widespread and increasingly public arena to advocate it as normative and as acceptable as a normal lifestyle.