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Re:On Amish Time on Saturday March 28, 2015 @07:47AM (#9281181)
I like how you managed to slip in 'the cultural value of', and then simply list alleged instances of sexual abuse within the Amish community neither of which implies that the practice is condoned or 'culturally valued'; because it's permissible, as long as we don't value it as a culture. The Amish aren't to be contrasted to 'Western civilisation'; they live in the West, they come from another part of the West, they practice Protestantism, an especially Western variety of a schism with a religion domiciled in the West. "But they're not civilised! They draw a line in the sand and reject technology beyond that line. They probably don't approve of genome editing. They've probably even banned it. All those happy children, never to be born."
Re:On Amish Time 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.