i didnt say you were, i said american values are. just clarifying. being thoughtful, sensitive, etc. is wonderful, i think so too. but, just as the midrash tells us with regard to mercy, having rachmonus on certain people is ossur. so too, is applying your good middos wrongly, in cases where they shouldnt. when moshiach comes and we go kill amalek, itll be ossur to spare them, like the navi tells us in the case of shaul and shmuel. im not bashing your middos tovos, im trying to say that when the torah requires us to have an opin ion about something, being wishy washy and trying to please everyone isnt b’derech hatorah, its b’derech liberalism. when jewish people try to make to’eiva marriages, we should respond, because Hashem called them that, not us. my values are, what does Hashem want from me, what does he want from the world, and am I helping that vision, or sidestepping issues and being ambiguous, thereby allowing a very different picure to be formed.
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