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

ubiq
Without question the “hardship created” by rape is worse than a pen being stolen. Thus although the punishment is less (or even non existent as it would be for stealing < shava peruta) the averia is still much much worse.
thats true in todays society
i dont believe it is the outlook in the torah
its not an issur to feel that way and today it must be taken into account at least in deciding if one wants to do it, but in a pristine torah only world it would not be that way
that has been my point all along
that we have been mushpa from western thought