08-02-2021, 01:13 AM
(07-30-2021, 11:01 PM)Dana Wrote: The Buccaneers, a football team, require its un-vaccinated players to wear a yellow wristband to identify themselves. If this is true I find it horrifying. The backers of this idea believe they are doing the right thing. I see a conflict of morality and do not believe in humiliating players into succumbing to the pressure. I don't follow football but if it is happening there and succeeds will the idea take hold? https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-banni...ear-yellow
Judaism teaches some basic lessons on the dignity of others, one of the many things that had and continues to draw me to its teachings. If we could be more concerned with removing the plank first from our own eyes prior to thinking of removing the speck from our neighbors, this sort of thing would not enter the consciousness of another. The way I see it anyway.
From one of my favorite books A Code of Jewish Ethics, Chapter on the harm of humiliating others. Whoever shames his neighbor in public, it is as if he shed his blood. Babylonian Talmud,
Bava Mezia 58b.
When Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah was about to die, his disciples sat before him, and asked, "Rabbenu [our teacher], teach us only one thing" (i.e., one fundamental final teaching). "He replied, 'My children, what can I teach you? Every one of you go and be very careful of the dignity of others'" (Derech Eretz Rabbah, chapter 3).