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“I think if he disagreed, he shouldn’t gave signed, and your one exception doesn’t indicate to me that the rest of the signatories were similarly disingenuous”
I am sorry but you did in fact call the R”Y of one of the biggest yeshivas in america “disingeneous” you only denied that the others were “similarly disingenous”
As to appeal to authority, Unless you mean The Ribono shel olam you have the wrong religion, every gadol in the world could support the “age gap,” they dont as ive pointed out, it wouldnt make it any more true. And certainly random “talmidei chachamim” agreeing with it wont make it true.
My point in bringing up the anecdote with my R”Y was not just to stress his opinion but the general metzes, he didnt just say HE thought it was silly, but that ANYONE who bought it was “simple minded” He assumed (or Knows) that the other signatories dont buy it either, as I dont think he wouldve called the all “simpleminded”
(This is assumption on my part since I didnt ask him specificly what he thought his colleague’s opinion on this silliness was)