Law is not identical to morality. One can create a system of laws and use them as tools of oppression, just as Nazi Germany did.
Legalized evil begins in the biblical city of Sodom.
The parallels between the stories of Sodom and the Flood jump out at the reader. Both involve the destruction of a civilization gone bad. In both stories, God saves an individual family from the destruction. In both stories, the survivor drinks too much and their children humiliate them. Linguistic plays reinforce these thematic parallels; several keywords such as ra “evil,” shachet “destruction,” and vayare, “and they saw,” are repeated in both stories.
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