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Health, please don’t label me anything, including a hypocrite, as I think you’re being a bit out of line (and wrong, both in the technical definition and in this particular case as well).
Yes, I was and still am very against any government legalizing this toeiva, and even the goyim know it is maaseh sedom. I have not changed that position, CH”V. But that does not make it correct to lump such governments in the same GENERAL and OVERALL category as Sedom. It is also a gross lack of Hakaras HaTov to do so.
Hashem runs the world, and He can be sovel this avla that THE UMOS HaOLAM committed, too, if He wishes. He can also put it into their hearts to realize how stupid and brainless this bill really is when children are considered, as I wrote above. That would solve that.
But we, Klal Yisrael, who dwell on this Earth **AND WHO EVEN VOTED OUT A JEWISH PROPONENT OF THIS TOEIVA (and favored instead his Catholic opponent who was against it)**, as I mentioned, can only do what we can and certainly cannot be blamed for this avla the Umos committed despite the OP’s erroneous suggestion otherwise.
The OP wrote 2 points which I thought were very off and incorrect. I didn’t “put words in your mouth”, but rather explained to you what I was defending. Again:
OP wrote: “we may be just as bad as the dor hamabul”. Again, we are absolutely not in the same league, sport, etc. as the evil barbarians of that wicked dor. We have unbelievable Torah, Avoda and Chesed, which are the three pillars that uphold this world, and it is this incredible Am HaNivchar, as it yearns for the geulah, that does so 24/7/365. We still desperately need the true geulah shileimah, may Hashem redeem us BB”A. But we are not at all what the OP wrote.
She also compared an unknown number of people who allegedly engage in “CD copying” to the wicked Sedom practice of a large group of people intentionally ganging up together and each taking less than a peruta’s worth of merchandise until the physical merchandise was all gone. Again, there is no comparison between CD copying and that evil, not in the act itself, nor the scale on which the respective acts were committed nor on the respective intents. Once again, to take the unknown number of these particular Jews and extrapolate that to comparing our entire People to Sedom is clearly very, very wrong.
Klal Yisrael has suffered so much already, R”L. If anyone feels the need to be mikatreig, cH”V, let them please ask their Rav for answers instead, rather than being mikatreig in a public forum when, at the very least, they could frame their concerns with words like “IT IS bad to do…” rather than “WE ARE bad”, CH”V.