aries2756 –
Truth is, I do not know exactly what they are doing. But I do know this. The way we came to this discussion in the first place was by you making a general accusation toward a certain institution, which happens to not be a political institution. That accusation blames a whole slew of chashuve rabbanim for covering up a cerain case. I know many of the rabbanim involved in that particular institution very well. And I am certain, knowing them personally, that they would not simply cover up for a dangerous person like this. Therefore I am also certain that they have a cheshbon in what they do. That is called trust. I do not trust that they don’t make mistakes, but I trust that they act upon their consciences and they do what they believe is right. And if I would only trust when things make sense then I would not trust at all.
I acknowledge that there are bad apples. But I think it is a real mistake to think that they are even a significant minority.
And here’s some food for thought: You have no statistics on cases that were handled properly, to really claim that most aren’t.
Personally I have a rebbi who is up nights on the phone with victims, organizations, phychologists, rabbis, etc. every single day. I uses to learn with him b’chavrusa once a week at night and we barely got to learn because he kept going to the next room to take calls. I have another rebbi who is the same way. There was a time when I had zero respect for rabbanim. It took me time but I slowly realized that the morons were exceptions to the rule, and proportionally there were far more morons bashing rabbis than there were morons who were rabbis.
Again, I do not know exactly what changes or fences they are implementing. But I have enough trust not to vilify them.