Hey, greatest, I see you neatly avoided the question. “If your child (just for example) decided he refused to wear tzitzis every day, would you then compel him by beating him black and blue until he listened?” That is what I asked. That is what you are advocating.
You write – the law takes precedence over feelings. Sure, in the same way a refrigerator takes precedence over a rubber band – It’s more expensive, you are more likely to see it, and it performs an indispensable function, but you wouldn’t – and couldn’t – bundle a newspaper with it.
You discuss compulsion without even considering the alternatives, as if there was no room for kiruv, for patience, for education, for being dan lkaf zchus, for ahavas yisroel, for recognizing that which is done kdas vodin while encouraging more observance.
There’s a kind of governance that fits your description. Used to run a country. In fact, it’s still out there trying to bring back its philosophy of compulsion. Fortunately there are soldiers from my country and yours working hard to stop them. They’re called the Taliban. The word means “students”, and their intense legalistic fanaticism leaves no room for transgression.
vhamayvin yovin