>>6256
As much as I like them; or rather the idyllic fantasy I've concocted in my mind about their primitive lifestyle based on a few interactions with them out in Pennsylvania; the thing about the Amish is that they can only exist within a degenerate state to protect them.
Their Luddite attitude makes them easy targets for bandits and brigands, even if they don't have much. I'd very much like to see how an Anabaptist group like them would have developed had they lived through the fall of the Apartheid in South Africa, where gangs of marauding zulus would descend upon their quaint little farms and tear them to shreds for reasons beyond what I care to think about.
Basically, they're ok, and they have charm, but I could never really live like that and you couldn't build a self-sufficient (which includes self-defense) society on their model. You need automatic weaponry, or men willing to take your taxes for protection.
I very much like how they interpret the Bible in some regards. Separation from the secular world and a strict, fierce tribalism are two of my favorite things. The tech part, not so much.
>Pic unrelated, but beautiful and cool nonetheless.