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Re:On Amish Time by anon4 on Saturday March 28, 2015 @04:26AM (#9280830)
Yes, yes that's exactly what he's saying. Their personal lifestyle choices are fine, but their ethics are absolutely not fine. To choose to live a simple life of manual labour and teach the same to your children is fine, but to bind their spirit by breaking their bodies is something I can't stand for. It's cruel and inhumane.
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Re:On Amish Time by visakanv on Saturday March 28, 2015 @06:37AM (#9281011)
> to bind their spirit by breaking their bodies is something I can't stand for. It's cruel and inhumane.

I agree. That said, I think it's worth reminding ourselves that there are a lot of cruel and inhumane things that we do to ourselves, too.

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Re:On Amish Time by laumars on Saturday March 28, 2015 @07:20AM (#9281126)
We shouldn't compare the worst of humanity against the worst of humanity. That gets us nowhere. Instead we should be comparing the worst against the best and looking to see how those issues can be rectified.
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Re:On Amish Time by fdsfasa on Saturday March 28, 2015 @06:00AM (#9280931)
They are set in their ways. To turn them onto the One True Path of Least Resistance we'll probably need a feet on the ground intervention, in the interests of unbound spirits and fleshy bodies.
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