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I ask a different question. What’s up with all this discussion about “enforcement”? Our batei din are not authorized to enforce anything, nor is any individual Rov. However, since we are capable of making other people’s lives miserable by rejecting their children, disallowing them to daven in a particular shul, ostracizing them within a community, maybe we should exploit all these means to control yetzer horah? Well, it is high time we stopped worrying about someone else’s spirituality and our own physical comforts. Maybe we should try the opposite – worry that others should have their physical needs and comforts supplied, and our own ruchniyus. We’ll all be happier.
That goes for the internet stuff in which we want to punish children for their parents having internet access, and similar types of bullying. It won’t work, and it only makes these “punishers” into complete resho’im. The only remedy that will save Klal Yisroel from all these transgressions is for each individual to undertake a serious project to spread yir’as shomayim in our own homes, communities, yeshivos, batei medrash, and everywhere we go.
And, men, don’t stare at women’s legs to assess hemlines. The looking is the greatest violation of tznius.