Do you think that expressing ideas carries responsibility? In other words if somebody writes a book with ideological ideas and then those ideas have an effect on someone causing him to do something wrong, is the initial writer also to blame?
(This is an issue in the non-Torah world. Did you know that bad ideas have wrought more havoc on mankind than the greatest of plagues and disasters. This is a book worth reading: 10 Books That Ruined the World)
However according to the Torah the answer is: Such a person is absolutely liable.
Now of course there is a difference if someone misconstrues a writer’s ideas for his own need. However, if he is simply taking those ideas to their logical extreme, then the writer and/or creator of those ideas will be held totally responsible for the outcome.
When we look back in history and try to contemplate the amount of wickedness that has come to the world because of ideas by authentic impostors of Judaism like Kook and JB, it is without a doubt that the fire of Gehinnom which is burning them gets hotter everyday.
College, Zionism, The Israeli Army, Znus, Obortion, the Rah-Banut, Homosexuality etc. The list goes on and on. All these and many other terrible phenomena all have their roots in the ideology of JB and Kook.
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