I don’t know why I am surprised that even an #ancient #rabbi could argue semantics over how far you have to go before you are truly liable for offering your offspring to #Molech. The line was crossed quite a long ways back, actually. Long before you uttered any #weaselwords.
Not unrelatedly, out-of-court #settlements with no admission of #wrongdoing are utter #CorporateBullshit and our modern #Sanhedrin should dish out some real #punishment that actually fucking hurts for a change.