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Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. That's the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is totally irrelevant to the discussion here - you're referring [in a rather toxic way] to ultra-Orthodoxy. My experience has been that ultra-Orthodox Jews are far less interested in and aware of the "thousand edge cases" since they prefer to stay far away from the proverbial 'edge'.

> is called a destructive totalitarian sect

no it is not, it is called that only by those who does not follow (and which these same rules does not make a difference in their lives) and for some reason feel entitled to be offended for others

I like rules