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“I meant that if one sins with a married women there is a punishment, equals cleansing, but if she is single there is none. That would make according to your logic, sinning with a single girl vastly worse than sinning with a married women.
That is the position for which I cannot fathom the logic.”
IF thats the question stoping you from considering rape worse than theft. LEts come up wih a sevara.
Maybe a married person sint as bad , because her life is less destroyed, presumably her husband won’t leaver her ? while a single person will have a hard (impossible?) time getting married.
OR maybe we keep him alive so that if she so chooses she can at least marry him.
I grant none of these are particularly compelling.
But surley both of those are more logical than concluding that theft is worse?