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

I realized this morning a possible misconception in what I’m saying.
You are possibly viewing what I’m saying as follows.
Let’s give an arbitrary severity rating to two sins, from our own minds
So I’d say
לשון הרע 10
Rape 90
Ready?
Now I come along and tell you לשון הרע is worse than rape
So basically I’m saying rape is maximum a 9
I’m a sicko.

But that’s not what I’m Saying.
Let’s start over
Let’s give an arbitrary severity rating to two sins, from our own minds
So I’d say
לשון הרע 10
Rape 90
Comes along to Torah and tells us, wrong!
Rape IS a 90 but לשון הרע is at least 91!!