tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post6080831665764924954..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: ON ACCEPTABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS OF NON-ASSIMILATIONSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-19252451625688608522015-03-23T12:48:57.944-04:002015-03-23T12:48:57.944-04:00There's much safer ways to have food on the Sa...There's much safer ways to have food on the Sabbath. Slow cookers, for example, are designed to operate for hours and most these days are programmable. Having been brought up as a pre-Vatican II catholic, I understand people's religious practices are important to them, but actually putting your family in danger for them doesn't seem like something god really would countenance.Rugosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348056243298249939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-20240804826879053562015-03-22T22:37:43.403-04:002015-03-22T22:37:43.403-04:00I worked Saturdays as an exterminator for years an...I worked Saturdays as an exterminator for years and have been in a lot of these homes. People leave their stoves on with exposed flames for the whole duration of shabbos. It's an odd and sometimes dangerous practice. Recently one friday evening a woman invited me, a total stranger, off the Brooklyn street into her home to turn off the light in her childrens' bedroom. The kids accidentally turned the lights on and it was forbidden in the house to turn them off. Shabbos Goy to the rescue! I was raised Roman Catholic pre 2nd Vatican council. We had a lot of weird rules to abide by too. It took me a long time to unlearn that shit.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-43745883704402324362015-03-22T18:53:06.850-04:002015-03-22T18:53:06.850-04:00"Why not just turn off the hot plate before t..."Why not just turn off the hot plate before the Sabbath?"<br /><br />The point is to have something on that they can cook with during the sabbath. I'm guessing the hot plate is thought to be less expensive to have on for an entire day.trnchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11288449285041026538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63159864952794324942015-03-22T16:59:23.864-04:002015-03-22T16:59:23.864-04:00Horrible story, indeed!
And yeah, if this had hap...Horrible story, indeed!<br /><br />And yeah, if this had happened because of some Muslim custom, our Reich-Wingers would be going nuts.<br /><br />And, as usual, aimia has a great take on this horrible tragedy, and about tribalism.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-69239675920119089452015-03-22T14:42:54.410-04:002015-03-22T14:42:54.410-04:00I don't get this. Why not just turn off the ho...I don't get this. Why not just turn off the hot plate before the Sabbath? Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17803231988989969133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-82869700436950315502015-03-22T14:05:37.197-04:002015-03-22T14:05:37.197-04:00Even if your are Orthodox and don't want to tu...Even if your are Orthodox and don't want to turn anything on for the sabbath there are lots of other solutions than running a cheap hotplate until it breaks. And complying with other laws relating to safety (such as smoke detectors, fire escapes, or occupancy laws) are, of course, not at issue. They still have to be followed.<br /><br />But all this is by the by. The real reason that a Muslim family would be excoriated but, in this instance, the Orthodox family won't is that everyone is always lookig for confirmation for their beliefs. When bad things happen to bad people (death comes to muslims, for example) it is always going to be asserted to be their own fault. And when bad things happen to people we imagine are jus tlike us, or on our side, or part of our tribe, we tend to find reasons that it is not their fault (just as we prefer to find our own misfortunes are not the result of some fault in us). aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14176876506253860212015-03-22T13:48:44.482-04:002015-03-22T13:48:44.482-04:00We each choose our own risks, except where we can&...We each choose our own risks, except where we can't.<br /><br />Sometimes insurance companies are OK with that, and sometimes not.<br /><br />Sometimes our choices affect the risks faced by others.<br /><br />Sometimes that strikes some people as an outrageous imposition.<br /><br />Particularly when they would not have made the choices we did.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-6825017278285541692015-03-22T13:44:22.216-04:002015-03-22T13:44:22.216-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.com