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

Not exactly
There is a difference between severe and severity.
I said all along it is bad
My point is only that things we think are not so bad are actually worse.
Our compass is inaccurate if you will.
In truth every sin is so calamitous, we would pass out if we really understood.
But we don’t.
So there is no such a thing as ”a little sin”
In the hierarchy I personally know if left to my own devices id completely mess up the order. Because I would rate rape as from the worst sins.
But here I see the Chafetz Chaim saying it’s not. Other sins that I’d think are not so bad are actually much worse.
In no way does that equate with saying it’s OK to sin .
Gotta go now
Maybe more later