Reply To: Is the USA Democracy A Morally Just System

1) I believe its a machlokos and they must be warned. Furthermore, generally the crimes are totally different in nature, like eating chazor on Yom kippur. There is the eating chazor and the yom kippur which are so far distinct. Only in the American justice systems are there a boatload of crimes that are all very similar and really the same crime.
2) If you refer to the arrests at the museum shabbos, the arrests were only made after the fact once the peace was disturbed. Why was the protest ever allowed to begin with without permits? had it been covid and a frum jewish levaya we wouldn’t have gotten to square one.
3) Even if we yelled for a total destruction of gaza that would be morally correct after Oct 7. I don’t need to debate with you why that is correct. Only colleges that brainwash naïve kids or Muslims living in a cult think different. You & I know that all of them cheered on oct 7 and calling for their destruction wouldn’t be the kind of immoral free speech. No its not a two way street. You can impose rules that limit free speech at times just as Germany did with nazis. Does that mean less democracy sure? But so what? My point is that democracy is no virtue when free speech results in jewish blood being spilled. A little authoritarian would do some good.
4) yes so maybe its better for the govt to tell us things. No it doesn’t mean anything and everything . You take this zero sum game like either total democracy or total auhtoirty. There is an in between. And frankly, if the govt telling us things mean that the NYT won’t spill jewish blood and print blood libels then so be it.