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  • in reply to: Gun Control #2105470
    truth2power
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    Again, this odd idea that if the USA were to enact stricter gun control laws it would lead to some sort of societal breakdown. Just look at other countries that have done it. Australia after Port Arthur. UK after Dunblane. New Zealand after Christchurch.
    They too had immense pressure from the gun lobby against the new legislation…but guess what, they did it and it was fine (and resulted in massive reductions in gun deaths).

    in reply to: Gun Control #2105039
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    This discussion has yet again descended into a classic, boring gun control debate, and proves exactly the point I was trying to make.

    Do you really think USA is that different from the rest of the Western world that all these reasons for the requirements to have guns don’t apply anywhere else?
    If so, you have to give a coherent reason (as @ubiquitin did right at the top of the discussion).
    If not, have a look at how the rest of the world prevents mass shootings (invariably, strict gun control), and do it!

    in reply to: Gun Control #2103918
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    My point stands. To the various posters pointing to inadequate mental health care and police follow-up to reports, you think that the Netherlands or Australia has significantly better mental health support or police activity? Highly doubtful. And yet people with mental health issues in these counties don’t go on mass shooting rampages because they simply can’t get a gun.


    @Ubiquitin
    ’s explanation regarding the individual vs. the collective actually makes the most sense to me, although why anyone would choose to live in a country that doesn’t care about them blows my mind (particularly as it is so opposed to Jewish societal values).

    As for the poster who said banning guns wouldn’t stop criminals getting them…have a look at how the UK removed ALL guns from the streets post Dunblane. It is absolutely possible.

    Fundamentally, do you all really think that the citizens of every other Western country aren’t really “free” because they can’t own guns? If so, that’s a heck of a position to defend. If not, why on earth keep your guns?

    in reply to: Israel – acting rashly? #1973381
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    To clarify, I wrote this before the rockets started coming over from Gaza. There is no justification for this and Israel should strike back with full force (doing its best to protect innocent civilians). I was referring to Har Habayis, Shimon Hatzadik and the general unpleasantness within Israel, not on its borders.

    @interjection
    So those teens should have been arrested and faced the law. We are privileged to have a fully functioning Jewish state that doesn’t need to rely on responses from right-wing nuts ‘getting their own back’ to achieve justice.
    We (rightly) get very upset when videos come out of Arabs shouting ‘Death to Israel’ and burning Israeli flags, yet in the past two weeks we have seen multiple videos of Jews shouting ‘Death to Arabs’, ‘Yemach Shemam’ and similar provocations.
    It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. We are losing the moral high ground.

    in reply to: Why liberalism is against the torah #1965946
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    @Anonymousomeone1
    1) Jews believe in the death sentence applied by Beis Din/Sanhedrin in the times of the Beis Hamikdosh, exceptionally rarely. Not the disaster that the death penalty has been in the USA over the past century.
    2) Liberals do believe murder is bad. As for abortion, you might be surprised how nuanced the halachic approach to the issue is if you actually look into it. In some cases much closer to the ‘liberal’ position than the conservative one.

    in reply to: Shmiras Shabbos is the answer to Climate Change. #1925277
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    Human driven climate change is not a belief. It is a verified fact which 99% of experts in the field confirm as true based on truckloads of evidence. Why you decide to reject these 99% of scientists but happily accept scientific consensus when it comes to medical care I have no idea.
    There is nothing in Jewish halacha, hashkafa or machshava that demands frum Jews to reject this. In fact, there are plenty of mekoros which predate the modern day scientific method which call for humans to look after Hashem’s creation.
    Save your protests for the issues which genuinely go against Torah.

    in reply to: A Vote for Biden is a Vote Against Israel #1916699
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    Surely the protection of American democracy is more important for Israel’s long term future than 4 more years of a particular president.
    Your candidate is going to take the election to the Supreme Court, unless he wins of course.
    What a chilul Hashem that our community voted for him.

    in reply to: Where are the women? #1908283
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    @Kilaolomchasdo
    That would be a nice explanation if it were only Frum Jews in NY not following the guidelines.
    But it isn’t. It’s in the UK and Israel as well, where there have not been major instances of seeming discrimination against the Frum community on the whole, and yet there seems to be a similar amount of disrespect for authority and disregard for rules.
    Even if the theories about COVID being overblown are correct (unlikely…people’s memories seem to be exceptionally short, it was only 4 months ago we were losing dozens of relatively young members of our own community – since when does Flu do this at Purim time on a normal year?), why is it that the Frum communities in multiple countries feel the need to take it upon themselves to prove that it isn’t a big deal?
    What happened to keeping our heads down and trying to blend in as best we can?

    in reply to: Abortions for Goyim #1904189
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    It is fascinating that so many Orthodox Jews believe that halacha falls on the pro-life side of the abortion debate.
    Even a cursory glance at the poskim show that halacha is much more accommodating than many Republican policy proposals. A more in depth limud would probably confuse people even more!
    Whilst certainly not ‘pro-choice’ in it’s outlook, halacha is so much more complex than the current political debate.
    Frum Jews need to really examine whether their hashkofos are actually informed by halacha, or by the terrifying shift of the community to the political right.

    in reply to: No blackface this Purim #1680142
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    I am a black Jew.
    I am so incredibly distressed, hurt and ashamed to have read this appalling thread.
    How can anyone think this is a way an ‘am kodosh’ behaves, thinks or speaks?
    Open your eyes.

    in reply to: looking for a yeshiva in israel #1018472
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    On the Kerem B’Yavne discussion: the classifications ‘MO’ or ‘Chareidi’ are quite simply below the eyeline of the yeshiva, it doesn’t care.

    You have boys and rebbeim of all backgrounds, both Israeli and Chutznik,coming together with the simple motto ‘cut out the political trash, and learn something!’

    It’s a remarkable place because of this attitude.

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