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> Perhaps you mean their morality does not agree with that of the wider culture surrounding them. Absolutely. The Western civilization is ignorantly missing th

by weland 12y ago

> Perhaps you mean their morality does not agree with that of the wider culture surrounding them. Absolutely. The Western civilization is ignorantly missing things like the incredible cultural value of sexual abuse ( http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316371 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316371 , http://legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_labi_janfeb05.msp http://legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature... ) or the beautiful parenting experience of raising children with nephropathic cystinosis (not to mention the happy lives of the children!) with that feeling of inner peace brought to you by knowledge that God wanted it like that. Open those closed, narrow minds of yours, people!

fdsfasa 12y ago
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."
- weland 12y ago
  If you read the articles closely, you'll see that they're anything but "alleged". The "morality" dasil003 mentions, which "does not agree with that of the wider culture surrounding them", disagrees with the "wider culture" of the West on many topics, including the way that sexual abuse should be dealt with or how access to healthcare should be regulated.

by weland 12y ago

fdsfasa 12y ago

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."

weland 12y ago
If you read the articles closely, you'll see that they're anything but "alleged". The "morality" dasil003 mentions, which "does not agree with that of the wider culture surrounding them", disagrees with the "wider culture" of the West on many topics, including the way that sexual abuse should be dealt with or how access to healthcare should be regulated.