Lomed Mkol Adam-
Whatever changes he made, I have not seen anything apparent in Halakhic Man that goes against old fashioned litvishe hashkafa. If I am incorrect, show me otherwise.
You are making up something and calling it a root difference. It is a shtus. Just an anecdote, I have heard that Rav Shachter tells a story that Rav Soloveichik was shaken up all Shabbos after he did a davar she’eino miskaven (if anything that’s the only non-litvishe thing I have ever heard about him, a true litvak would say hey it’s mutar anyway and move on in life). And whether this story is true or not doesn’t matter. It is absolutely incorrect and truly slanderous to say that the MO philosophy discounts depth and feeling in our actions. No religion would ever say that, never mind a segment of our own. To claim this value to Chareidi philosophy alone is to be ignorant of the most basic human need for meaning. Excuse me but it is just foolish.
msseeker-
If 50% of Jewish teens were cheaters, it wouldn’t be an unfair stereotype or complete misrepresentation of Jewish ideals; it would be the truth.
Of course it would be a misrepresentation of Jewish ideals. Jewish ideals are Jewish ideals, regardless of what Jewish people do.