It's imposing not on their morality, it's imposing on the status-quo: the hard-wrought balance that is civil life in Jerusalem. The fact that there's *rioting* shows just how tenuous the civility in day-to-day life is in that city.
Granted, the Sabbath-related laws are the basis for their position, but having carved-out an understanding with their non-Orthodox neighbors on how life is to be undertaken in the city -- with inconveniences for everyone, not just the non-Jew -- it now matters not where the impetus for the position comes from, but rather that the caveats and understandings *everyone* has been living under are maintained.
It's just a fact of life in that place that these legal things must be done -- even when it makes no sense. Look at Alberta in Canada, and the requirement that official documents be also published in French; it makes no sense for those citizens, but it smooths things over for others; it's their system, and it's not a matter of 'morality'.
Even if the Quebecois would riot if the city of Edmonton stopped using French.
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Date: 2009-07-17 12:23 am (UTC)Granted, the Sabbath-related laws are the basis for their position, but having carved-out an understanding with their non-Orthodox neighbors on how life is to be undertaken in the city -- with inconveniences for everyone, not just the non-Jew -- it now matters not where the impetus for the position comes from, but rather that the caveats and understandings *everyone* has been living under are maintained.
It's just a fact of life in that place that these legal things must be done -- even when it makes no sense. Look at Alberta in Canada, and the requirement that official documents be also published in French; it makes no sense for those citizens, but it smooths things over for others; it's their system, and it's not a matter of 'morality'.
Even if the Quebecois would riot if the city of Edmonton stopped using French.