philosopher-
“I don’t put everyone’s actions under a microscope. But those who go OTD is because of their bechira.”
How can you make such a general statement? I’m sure many have bechira not to go off the derech. But is it impossible for you to fathom that a child was so abused by the system or whatever it was that without proper guidance made it unreasonable to expect him or her not to go off? What basis do you have for assuming that everyone who goes of does it with bechira?
My intention when I mentioned the opinion that bechira only exists at a certain point was only to demonstrate that even people who are trying to do good do not always have bechira to do good, and vice versa.
“The fact is that Hashem punishes sin. The curses in the Torah are there for a reason.”
I don’t disagree. But that doesn’t say that Hashem punishes every sin, it means there are sins that he punishes. The ones done with bechira.