Kanoi Next Door-
I said- “They claim that they are protecting the state by learning, but you would have to be a delusional charedi to think that is an argument that would actually convince anyone that isnt charedi.”
You said- “Aha. So looking good is more important than doing what’s actually right?”
No. My point is not that it is more important to look good. My point is simply to say, what did the charedim think was going to happen eventually?
They might think that learning is protecting the rest of the country (and they might even be right), but the should be smart enough to realize that the rest of the country doesn’t think that.
So they set themselves up to fail by basing their community on an argument that, by definition, is not going win over the rest of Israeli society. They should have planned ahead more and compromised since the uncompromising position was doomed to failure.