username: “The Rambam also says:
מי שאינו רוצה ליתן צדקה או שיתן מעט ממה שראוי לו בית דין כופין אותו ומכין אותן מכת מרדות עד שיתן מה שאמדוהו ליתן, ויורדין לנכסיו בפניו ולוקחין ממנו מה שראוי לו ליתן. וממשכנין על הצדקה ואפילו בערבי שבתות.
Should we apply the same Diyuk here? If a Beis Din can’t force someone to give Tzedaka, they shouldn’t try convincing them, because it says “Kofin” and not “encourage” or “convince”?”
How can you compare the two? Here, in the same perek, it says that a Yid is mechuyav to give tzedoko, so even though nowadays in most places beis din doesn’t have the power to enforce it, the mitzvah to give tzedoko, and the arvus involved in encouraging all Yidden to give tzedoko, still applies. In the case of forcing goyim to keep the 7 mitzvos the only statement of the Rambam is to force them to do so. And since that doesn’t apply nowadays, coupled with the fact that there is no arvus, the halacha is not applicable.
Furthermore, the Rambam continues that halocho by saying that the goy has to be mekabel to keep the 7 mitzvos in front of three chaveirim (not friends, but basically frum Jews) and then he is considered a ger toshav. Do we have a ger toshav nowadays? Do those who promote the 7 mitzvos “encourage” that they specifically accept all the 7 mitzvos in front of three chaveirim? Because if they don’t accept it that way, according to the Rambam, they are chayav misa even if they happen to keep those 7 mitvos. Have a look and see.