Health – “I’m happy when I point out fallacies in certain posters.”
My friend and fellow Yid, that statement is troubling!
It is a form of ‘miskabed bi’klon chavero’ (raising oneself by denigrating someone else), which Chazal strictly forbid, and can cost olom haba c”v (see Rambam Hilchot Teshuvah 4:4).
The story is told of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter zt”l, who once saw two children playing. When one of the children pushed the other one into a pit and proclaimed himself to be the ‘King of the castle’, he predicted that that child would turn out to be a rosho.
‘But surely,’ someone asked, ‘that is the way children play?’
‘Maybe,’ replied R. Yisroel, ‘but he could just as well have climbed a rock and made the same proclamation. Why push the other one down? That bears the mark of a rosho.’
Surely there are “healthier” ways to make Health happy. If need be, climb a rock or a mountain and proclaim yourself king.