Sort of similar: elevators in Israel may be programmed to stop at every floor during the Sabbath, as riding the elevator is permitted according to the talmudic definition of "work", but summoning the elevator is not.
> he wouldn't have put them there
Yes...that's right....he didn't.
I personally don't have any problem with the idea of exploiting loopholes, I mean, it is Hacker News, and cleverness and exploiting loopholes is pretty much the definition of being a hacker. But from a religion perspective, it looks more like an atheist, or even satanist value.
Wow. Well, loopholes are loopholes I guess.
I do wonder, however, whether there are dedicated individuals within religious organizations that assess a given spiritual framework and consider workarounds for things that might be dangerous to the health of their religious community.
It strikes me that if you're deriving whether an action is safe for your religion based on a technicality like "a signal light turns on", then either:
1. Your religion needs to lighten up a bit. I doubt any deity cares about small technical details like that.
or
2. You're in violation of rules anyway. The intent is still there, so even if you're using a loophole, there's no practical difference between those two actions. Both you and whatever deity know you're committing an offense.
Also exercise benefits, but I make myself take the stairs under the guise of saving time.
Although I respect the cleverness of workarounds like this... come on! You're still violating the spirit of the "law!"