Sometimes ethics demands one to do so. For example, when everyone’s life is being risked and no one takes notice.
This is the emperor’s new clothes paradigmof Hans Christian Andersen’s. Only that this time around, the emperor is hiding a bomb from the public eye. Do you see it?
March 11, 2019d
Hello Otto, I am surprised. You are a University Professor and you do not know how people start a scandal. They start a scandal by giving reports about a person that is not a good report. The Apostle Paul wrote in the book of Philippians that we should share whatsoever is of a good report, and that has virtue and praise. My parents told me that if I can not say anything good about someone then don't says anything. The person may ask than if we do not spill the beans the adulterous will run the church. Well, Jesus said if your brother is overtaken in a fault then you should go to him and correct him. Paul says to the Galatians if your brother is overtaken in a fault then you who are spiritual go to him and discuss it. Paul says in the book of Corinthians that the Christians will judge angels this word mean pastor or a person who has a message not an angelic being. It is Greek for agglesios. Remembering from past experience many reports people spread are unfounded they have no facts or no substantial evidence, everything is heresy or what they have imagined or believed in their imagination. The scandal started with King Solomon was that he had a great libido because he had many wives. This is not true. The truth is that when you made an alliance back then with a nation it was common practice to seal the covenant or contract with a marriage. Solomon probably did not know some of the women that came to Israel because of a Peace Treaty with that country. Let me share a story I read in my Hebrew book about the Hebrews that I think is quite interesting. Have you ever heard the story of the Covenant Donkey? Gen. 49:10-12 contains a prophecy of Messiah that describes both his sufferings and glory (cf. Luke 24:25-27, 45-48); Acts 26:22-23; 1 Peter 1:10-11). (The dual theme of Messiah's sufferings and glory is also present for example, in Gen. 3:15) One suggestion of Messiah's sufferings in Gen. 49:11 is found in the particular terms used to describe the animal that is bound to the vine. The first half of this verse reads as follows אםךי לגפן עיךן (He [Shiloh] ties to the vine his foal or ןלשךקה בני אתנן (And to the coice vine the son of his female donkey). The general import of this language (and of the surrounding context) is that in the messianic era the grapevines will be so luxuriant and fruitful that one can simply hitch his donkey to them without concern for their being damaged. There is a text from Mari, a city on the upper Euphrates, dating from about the eighteenth century B.C., that describes a situation in which a suzerain has sent his lieutenant to supervise a covenant ratification ceremony between two suzerain's vassals. The royal servant has done his duty and is now reporting back to his lord. The lieutenant recounts in particular that in this covenant ceremony he took a certain kind of animal and killed it to seal the covenant and, specifically, to symbolize the curse that would overtake anyone who would break the covenant. The term he uses for this animal is cognate to Hebrew עיך בן אתןן. Evidently, this special breed of donkey was specifically stipulated for use in covenant ratification ceremonies (cf. NIDOTTE 1:575-577). The shedding of the blood of the עיך בן אתןן would ratify the covenant. It was the covenant donkey. It is against this background that significance of the donkey in Gen. 49:11 can be appreciated. The covenant donkey also sheds light on Zechariah 9 and the Gospel accounts of the triumphal entry, which associate Messiah with this particular donkey known for its role in the shedding of blood in order to ratify a covenant. In particular, Messiah's association with the covenant donkey hints that the way to glory will be achieved through the shedding of blood. Jesus is qualified to be grantee and guarantor of the new covenant through the shedding of the blood of the covenant. God Bless!!!
Also I would like to say when you think about it Solomon's way meant a saving of lives whether than a destruction of lives and there was no curse placed on the King if the covenant was broken.
Gather the facts. Assess the merits of starting the scandal. If by triggering a scandal the society benefits then do so; otherwise do not start a scandal. If the scandal is not fact-based remember there may be repercussions such as being sued for slander. How exactly to start the scandal has been well explained by Faith above. Thank you
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