Reply To: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment?

Thank you for providing your list of “exceptions ”
(as an aside, tzoras is a punishment, and according to the sichos mussar that I started this thread with, is from the most severe punishment of them all, but leaving that out won’t change my point at all)
I’m not sure what you hope to accomplish with the list.
You can prove to me that there are hundreds of exceptions.
My contention was and is that the rule is for use in absence of other guidelines.
Similar to your contention that the rule is for use in absence of “my critical thinking “providing me with a guideline.
Just I’m saying that I can’t be the arbiter of determination, I need someone much greater than me, to state so.
Perhaps you feel that is you.
If I knew you were an accomplished Talmid chochom accepted by most of klal yisroel ,perhaps that would be enough.
If I knew you were r Akiva eiger in disguise, it definitely would be enough.

Let’s remember
My whole contention, spelled out in the other thread, which was shut down by the mods, was that our critical thinking has been impacted by western “morals ” to the extent that we have instinctive gut reactions to things, In ways that are totally not in line with the Torahs View.
I used the example of rape because it was similar to a question I believe you had thrown out at the time.
I could use many other examples
But they are not necessarily as “ubiquitous!”
Slavery
Abortion
Child marriage
Polygamy
Racism