Gavrie Philipson
Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:09:18 -0700
Aviram, First, use a standards-compliant mailer (such as something non-Microsoft) -- especially on a Linux mailing list. Your quotation marks are quite wacky. Aviram Jenik wrote: > This must be the stupidest way of thought I've seen. It shows you are not > even +AF8-trying+AF8- to hear an opinion different than yours, even if it's logical. > > Why is the idea of people +ACo-not+ACo- going into a restaurant because they serve > meat and also coffee with milk seem FINE to you, while on the other hand the > objection of going to a restaurant that +ACo-refuses+ACo- to serve coffee with milk > seems okay?+ACE- > > And about asking 'when does a restaurant stop being kosher', common - I hope > you were just asking for the sake of the argument, because if you were > serious it shows a lot about your ability to understand complex logical > sentences (and if this is the case, just delete this e-mail and get on with > your life. You're going to miss most of the ideas I try to express here). Well, of course deeming anyone who thinks different than you as "illogical" is a very mature and logical act by itself. The people who don't go into a restaurant serving meat&milk do so for a reason (whether logical or not). The person who doesn't go into a restaurant _refusing_ to serve meat&milk does so just out of spite. Or do you want to tell me that you never eat a meal at home in which meat and milk are not mixed? In that case I stand corrected. > If religious people have strict and coherent rules which tell them which > restaurants they will or will not eat in, what makes it difficult for you to > understand that some non-religious people have similar rules too? > I, for one, will +AF8-not+AF8- eat in a +AF8-kosher+AF8- McDonalds. Never. No matter >how > hungry I am, or how much I like McDonalds. Neither will I. Never. A company that serves non-kosher food just for the purpose of it isn't going to see any revenue from me. So, at least we agree on something ;-) > I will try to avoid going into a > kosher restaurant altogether if I have a choice. Other people have other > rules (see http://www.hofesh.org.il for some other examples) some are much > stricter than I am. > > Just a few words about this 'religious' war. Notice that neither Moshe nor I > said anything bad about the religious people's freedom to choose their > restaurants. On the other hand, a large group tried to condemn Moshe for > doing this exact same thing. Man, this country needs a HUKA... I think the point of disagreement is very simple: Religious people follow specific rules for a *reason* (whether good or not is not the issue). Trying to create an artificial "Anti-religion" -- just to do the opposite of what religous people do -- out of principle ("davka") is something different altogether. Anyway, let's move this discussion to some other place. Gavrie. -- Gavrie Philipson Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]