Before subjective blind
Do I have a duty (at least moral, if not halakhic) to warn a person that he is doing something that I think is okay, but I know that in his opinion it is forbidden?
A mild example; a person who comes to eat meat with rabbinical kosher and I know that he does not trust him (this is a mild example because apparently in this example he does not believe that the meat is completely forbidden, but is simply being stricter about it)
2. Feeding him myself is certainly forbidden because of his autonomy, right? (In the question above, I just didn’t let him know that he was doing something that he thought was forbidden) and here I bring him the dish myself.
1. Absolutely. See the articles The Price of Tolerance and Column 503.
2. Indeed, see my above articles.
Maybe I missed something. But it seems to me that the rabbi didn't really discuss the above situation in which I didn't enter my friend's autonomous territory, but rather, in retrospect, I didn't get up from my seat to enlighten him on a matter that in my opinion (as a communist) has no substance.
Do I have a moral obligation to help him exercise his right to make mistakes?
I don't see a difference. There is a moral obligation to help him act autonomously, just as there is an obligation not to hinder him. The example in the Sukkah, "The Ritva" in Sukkah 10, is an obligation to tell them to pay attention to the extremes of the noi, meaning that there too it is about their position that there is a prohibition in the act, and not about the actual failure.
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