What does the rabbi think about holding a conference on polyamory at Bar Ilan?
I would love to know what the rabbi thinks about the legitimacy of holding this conference.
I don’t know what the content of the conference is (I just heard about the noise and we’ve muted the content a bit).
If the question is scientific, what the phenomenon leads to and whether or not it creates problems, what it stems from, what its history is, and so on, there is certainly room for discussing it at an academic conference anywhere. But if the discussion is about the legitimacy of the phenomenon, then it is problematic. But such a discussion is not scientific but rather value-based and therefore has no place in academia at all, not necessarily at Bar Ilan (although in the social and spiritual “sciences” anything is possible).
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