Q&A: The Terror of Liberalism
The Terror of Liberalism
Question
Hello, Rabbi!
I’m curious what you think about the liberalist terror of the last few days.
As for the substance of the issue, personally I don’t think homosexuality is a deviation, a moral problem, and so on, but I hate, hate, hate thought dictatorship.
Answer
My feelings are very similar, with just one addition: expressions like illness or deviation have no clinical meaning. They are purely normative. Someone who thinks it is forbidden calls it an illness/deviation, and someone who thinks it isn’t does not.
I wrote about this briefly here.
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See also the interview on the “Kamocha” website that I linked to there.
Regarding the thought-terror, I am considering writing another column focused on this issue, although it is mentioned several times in my writings there. Usually, when people have no arguments, they move on to taking offense and throwing around politically correct slogans (just as among religious people, when someone has no arguments against you, he passionately claims that you are a heretic).
Goodbye,