Reply To: Should Someone Who Is Considering Murder…

Is it the child’s fault though? If the parent is contemplating murder, it probably has zero to do with the child.

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his kids are not responsible for his thought or actions, therefore you can not penalize his kids by not allowing them into yeshiva

I agree with you in principle, but this doesn’t seem to be the general practice. Yeshivos will throw a child out of school if the parents have a TV or an unfiltered internet connection even if the child is unable to watch/access it.

But hey, let’s forget the kids/yeshivos angle. I simply used it because it’s the most common form of societal pressure used today. How about simply being allowed to belong to a shul, have an aliya, etc.? Should he be ostracized from the community?

The Wolf