Reply To: The “Defend Something You Are Against” Challenge

yekke2, I see some major problems with your earlier post:

You say it is in a way more dangerous to argue things which are “grey areas”. Yet, concerning most hashkafic/halachic issues, there actually ARE multiple legitimate ways of dealing with them. That’s exactly WHY there are so many opinions, from so many, as you say, Torah leaders. So obviously, each one has evaluated all sides, and decided what the best way forward is. They are thinking critically. So all you are suggesting, in reality, is that WE, the peasants, are not allowed to think for ourselves, and instead we must have others think for us. And not only that, but we are not even allowed to consider the benefits of other people’s hashkafos/ halachic rulings, and that only OURS are correct, and are the only real truth.

Now THAT is what I call dangerous.