This is my last remark, G-d willing, on this particular thread, because I think it has run its course. Having a firm opinion is not always the same as the smugness that one sometimes feels while having that firm opinion, and that smugness that SOME feel IS arrogance. Perhaps you don’t see that. OK, I don’t blame you for that. Apparently though, enough people HAVE experienced that sort of attitude coming from someone else who superficially appears “frummer,” to the point that it bothers them very much.
In my humble and honest opinion, no one is right to demonstrate that he feels he is a better Jew than another person. Only Hashem Gets to Decide that. It’s not menschlech, and it makes the other person feel diminished. Some people react to this type of behavior by “mocking” the frummer-looking person, which is what this thread was about to begin with. I think that THAT is just as wrong. No matter what our level of observance is, we have a mitzvah of V’ahavta l’rayacha kamocha, and this is NOT the way to achieve that middah. I really am out of material, now. We need to start a new thread. How about “50 yummy ways with p’tcha…”?