“not changing one halacha”
“It charges frum Jews with caring about those who are not Jewish, not observant, or differently observant”
This changes many halachos. Would an “ethical Orthodox ” person rescue an idolater from death? That’s against halacha. Would he return a lost item without making a kiddush Hashem or avoiding a chilul Hashem? That’s against halacha too. Would he prioritize doing business with frum jews as the halacha requires?
That’s just a few examples.
The problem here is that something besides Torah is influencing your Orthodoxy. Unlike rav hirsch, who said that everything is subservient to Torah, people like aharon Lichtenstein believe in Christian “natural law” that Hashem put in our heads to know right and wrong. What he won’t admit is that halacha demands that we suppress even our good midos when necessary (mechias amalek) and demands that we bend our minds to fit halacha, not fake into account what we personally “feel” based on “intuition”
“Intuition” varies from person to person, and from place to place. One country’s culture would lead to one feeling of morality, and another will produce a different result.
Not that Lichtenstein has any shred of source for this delusion. Not one. It’s just his “intuition”.
Ask a goy from 200 years ago and he’d say slavery was fine. That was his “intuition”
Funny how people who are into “ethics” and who grimace at racism and treating goyim differently have usually never spent time breaking their middos and attempting to serve Hashem the way HE told us to serve Him.
Instead they run to help goyim and serve themselves.