[mydogcanpurr]

The Amish exist because the government allows them to. If they didn't have a modern US military defending them, they could be easily conquered by almost any country.

The point I'm trying to make is that technology is a bit like prisoner's dilemma. If you don't advance, you will be destroyed by those who do even though we might all be better off with less tech. As an example of this, consider CRISPR babies.

[autoexec]

> If they didn't have a modern US military defending them, they could be easily conquered by almost any country.

It doesn't help that they're pacifists either

[inconceivable]

> If they didn't have a modern US military defending them, they could be easily conquered by almost any country.

i mean, isn't that true of everyone in the US who isn't armed to the teeth?

also, i wouldn't be so sure they don't have some kind of weapons and ammo stored away.

[mydogcanpurr]

Part of my point is that if we all lived like the Amish, we wouldn't have a modern military.

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There were once non-pacifist Anabaptist sects as well as pacifist ones. The latter are still with us, but the former stopped existing centuries ago.