Exactly
Jews think of moral matters in relative terms it seems, not in absolute
Sex with a baby isn't a problem if the baby doesn't recall anything and isn't physically armed, basically
That's the sort of stuff the "poke in the eye" part is essentially implying, and of course it doesn't even count if it's done to a non jew that's a given, there's no penalty in the book
To me, that's the hallmark of a people generally devoid of any true sense of morality, maybe stemming from a rather common lack of empathy, and you have to come up with twisted religious rulings like that to keep things relatively afloat within the community, otherwise you would have to punish a non negligible chunk of the tribe everyday, people who obviously don't see what's wrong with fiddling with the baby for instance https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11
On a visit to Jerusalem in 2005, Rabbi Rosenberg entered into a mikvah in one of the holiest neighborhoods in the city, Mea She'arim. "I opened a door that entered into a schvitz," he told me. "Vapors everywhere, I can barely see. My eyes adjust, and I see an old man, my age, long white beard, a holy-looking man, sitting in the vapors. On his lap, facing away from him, is a boy, maybe seven years old. And the old man is having anal sex with this boy."
Rabbi Rosenberg paused, gathered himself, and went on: "This boy was speared on the man like an animal, like a pig, and the boy was saying nothing. But on his face—fear. The old man [looked at me] without any fear, as if this was common practice. He didn't stop. I was so angry, I confronted him. He removed the boy from his penis, and I took the boy aside. I told this man, 'It's a sin before God, a mishkovzucher. What are you doing to this boy's soul? You're destroying this boy!' He had a sponge on a stick to clean his back, and he hit me across the face with it. 'How dare you interrupt me!' he said. I had heard of these things for a long time, but now I had seen."
That article always pisses me off.
What's striking to me is the total lack of any sense of wrong doing
I told this man, 'It's a sin before God, a mishkovzucher. What are you doing to this boy's soul? You're destroying this boy!' He had a sponge on a stick to clean his back, and he hit me across the face with it. 'How dare you interrupt me!' he said.
I mean, the fact that the guy isn't backing off in shame right away, trying at least to cover up and/or run away from what he did, just shows that he isn't wired like a normal person, he certainly doesn't perceive reality like most people do, needless to mention his relationship to "others"
It's almost as if he considers himself, and others of course, as totally different species. Like it's not a boy he's fucking, it would be an inflatable plastic doll instead it wouldn't make much of a difference obviously. But what do I know, maybe that sick fuck would have a serious "ethical" problems fucking an actual plastic doll instead... For god knows what twisted metaphysical reason. That wouldn't surprise me one bit
And the fact that it gets a pass, culturally speaking, is huge. I mean it's not happening in secret, you aren't dealing with a catholic priest ashamed of what he did and apologizing after getting caught here
Child sex abuse among catholics doesn't get a pass, that's something they really have a problem with in the church and the vast majority of catholics welcome the investigations and prosecutions, regardless of the outcomes for the institution which is already screwed up by those instances of child abuse
So it tells you a thing or two here
That rabbi in the article above is experiencing serious ostracization for calling out the abuses
When you police yourselves (JYC private police) things get swept under the rug it seems..
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