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Atash Hagmahani

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Amish expanding...
« on: August 21, 2008, 12:14:36 AM »
Making love not war:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/08/the-amish-who-r.html

Birth rates not a problem. Also, the fact that they are pacifistic has long-term strategic benefits (this would take a while to explain, but it has to do with long-term chaotic downstream effects), as long as they are not personally under attack (which might very well change...).

Instead, I think that economic starvation will be their undoing. Already many of them can not afford farms. They will also face increasing intrusiveness of government agencies over a variety of regulations they routinely refuse to comply with.

They also face problems from "traitors". About 1 in 5 of them opt out when they are allowed to decide to do so, and some of the opt-outers have been working with gov't agencies to harass them.
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