It sounds almost like an issue of cultural identity, much like the wearing of yarmulkes and side curls - this serves no practical purpose other than to identify the person as Jewish, much in the way that two opposing football teams wear differing uniforms for easy identification. This made sense in a small society perpetually at war with its neighbors. It also encourages that groupthink, pep rally type of feeling which inevitably goes along with a group membership. Someone who dresses in the colors of the opposing team is committing a sin against the spirit of the group and its attempt to stand out as seperate from surropunding society, and such behaviors are harshly punished in most if not all groups, by stining, shunning, jail, etc. This, oddly enough, seems to go along with the other topic you posted today. Or maybe not so odd - they both have to do with issues of sin or right vs. wrong, good vs. evil.
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Date: 2003-07-14 10:00 am (UTC)This, oddly enough, seems to go along with the other topic you posted today. Or maybe not so odd - they both have to do with issues of sin or right vs. wrong, good vs. evil.